1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
10 HS/01 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
16 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917, OVE-20190718-0006)
22 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
23 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
25 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
26 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
27 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
28 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
29 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
32 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
33 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
35 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
36 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
39 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
40 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
42 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
43 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
44 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
45 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
48 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
49 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
50 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
52 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
55 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
56 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
59 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
60 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
61 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
62 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
63 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
64 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
65 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
66 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
68 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
69 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
71 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
72 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
75 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
76 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
79 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
80 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
81 one for these; the option was ignored.
83 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
89 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
90 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
92 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
93 non-signal-safe functions being used.
95 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
96 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
97 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
99 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
100 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
101 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
103 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
104 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
105 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
106 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
107 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
110 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
111 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
113 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
114 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
115 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
116 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
117 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
118 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
119 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
121 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
122 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
124 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
127 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
128 Previously this would segfault.
130 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
133 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
134 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
135 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
136 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
137 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
138 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
140 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
142 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
143 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
144 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
145 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
147 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
149 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
150 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
151 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
152 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
154 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
156 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
158 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
159 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
160 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
162 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
163 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
164 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
166 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
168 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
169 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
170 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
171 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
173 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
174 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
175 promised '?' replacement.
177 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
179 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
180 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
181 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
182 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
183 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
185 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
186 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
187 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
189 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
190 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
191 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
193 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
194 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
195 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
197 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
198 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
199 hope that is portable enough.
201 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
202 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
203 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
204 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
206 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
207 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
208 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
210 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
211 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
212 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
213 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
215 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
216 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
218 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
219 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
220 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
221 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
223 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
224 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
225 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
227 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
228 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
229 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
230 the previous G, M, k.
232 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
233 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
236 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
237 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
238 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
239 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
241 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
242 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
244 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
245 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
246 off past the nul-terimation.
248 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
249 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
250 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
251 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
252 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
254 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
256 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
257 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
258 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
261 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
262 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
264 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
265 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
266 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
268 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
269 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
270 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
272 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
273 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
279 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
280 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
281 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
282 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
283 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
284 be defined in redis_servers.
286 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
287 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
289 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
290 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
291 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
292 extant use locations.
294 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
295 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
297 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
298 Previously only the last row was returned.
300 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
301 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
302 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
303 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
306 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
307 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
308 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
309 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
310 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
311 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
312 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
313 Main pool for expansions.
314 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
315 active in the testsuite.
316 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
318 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
319 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
320 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
321 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
324 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
325 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
328 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
329 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
330 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
332 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
333 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
334 ClamAV interface method is removed.
336 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
337 rows affected is given instead).
339 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
340 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
342 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
343 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
344 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
345 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
346 for all multi-message initiating connections.
348 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
349 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
350 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
352 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
353 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
354 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
355 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
358 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
359 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
360 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
363 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
365 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
366 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
368 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
369 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
370 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
372 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
373 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
374 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
377 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
378 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
380 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
381 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
382 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
384 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
385 for the build is renamed.
387 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
388 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
389 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
391 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
392 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
393 result replacing the original.
395 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
396 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
397 and the resources needed to be freed.
399 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
401 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
404 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
405 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
406 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
407 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
409 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
410 length value. Previously this would segfault.
412 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
413 newer versions of the scanner.
415 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
416 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
417 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
418 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
419 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
420 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
421 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
423 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
424 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
425 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
426 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
427 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
428 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
429 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
430 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
431 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
432 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
434 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
435 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
437 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
439 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
440 allows proper process termination in container environments.
442 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
443 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
445 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
446 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
447 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
449 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
450 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
451 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
452 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
454 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
455 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
458 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
459 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
461 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
462 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
463 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
464 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
465 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
467 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
468 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
471 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
472 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
474 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
477 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
478 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
479 "bare" representation.
481 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
482 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
483 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
484 corrupted the output.
490 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
491 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
492 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
493 pairs of long lines into single ones.
495 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
496 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
498 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
499 This permits better logging.
501 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
502 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
503 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
504 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
505 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
506 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
508 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
509 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
512 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
513 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
514 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
516 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
517 than 255 are no longer allowed.
519 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
520 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
521 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
522 client, there is no benefit for these.
523 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
524 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
525 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
528 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
529 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
531 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
532 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
533 erroneously found still-pending ones.
535 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
536 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
538 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
539 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
540 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
541 signature and again for transmission.
543 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
544 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
545 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
547 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
548 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
549 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
550 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
551 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
552 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
553 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
555 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
556 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
557 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
558 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
560 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
561 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
562 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
563 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
564 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
565 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
568 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
569 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
570 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
571 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
574 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
575 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
576 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
577 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
580 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
581 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
584 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
585 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
586 banner-time rejection.
588 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
591 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
592 is the name of a transport.
595 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
597 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
598 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
600 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
601 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
602 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
605 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
606 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
607 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
608 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
610 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
611 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
612 initial verify call returned a defer.
614 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
615 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
617 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
618 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
620 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
621 if present. Previously it was ignored.
623 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
624 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
626 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
627 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
630 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
631 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
633 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
634 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
635 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
637 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
638 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
639 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
640 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
642 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
643 and confused the parent.
645 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
646 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
648 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
651 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
652 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
653 out-of-order delivery.
655 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
656 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
657 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
660 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
661 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
664 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
665 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
666 one run was done. Bug 2189.
668 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
669 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
670 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
671 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
672 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
673 message is still "Temporary local problem".
675 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
676 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
677 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
679 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
680 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
681 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
683 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
684 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
685 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
686 though a different problem.
692 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
693 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
695 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
697 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
698 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
700 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
701 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
703 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
704 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
705 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
706 before acknowledging the chunk.
708 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
709 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
710 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
712 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
713 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
714 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
717 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
718 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
719 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
721 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
722 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
724 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
725 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
726 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
727 body hash calculated value.
729 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
730 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
731 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
733 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
735 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
736 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
738 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
739 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
740 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
742 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
743 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
744 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
745 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
746 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
747 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
749 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
750 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
751 past that check, despite the cost.
753 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
754 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
755 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
757 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
758 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
759 TLS library to consume.
761 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
763 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
765 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
766 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
767 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
768 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
769 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
770 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
771 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
773 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
775 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
777 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
778 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
779 should be warning-free.
781 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
783 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
784 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
786 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
787 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
788 general solution here.
790 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
791 already-broken messages in the queue.
793 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
795 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
801 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
802 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
804 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
805 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
806 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
808 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
809 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
810 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
811 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
812 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
813 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
814 if one fails this test.
815 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
816 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
818 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
819 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
821 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
822 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
824 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
825 in rewrites and routers.
827 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
828 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
830 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
831 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
833 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
835 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
838 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
839 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
840 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
841 connection after a verify cache hit.
842 Do not update it with the verify result either.
844 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
845 when routing results in more than one destination address.
847 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
848 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
849 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
850 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
851 when the cutthrough connection is made).
853 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
854 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
856 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
857 Previously they were not counted.
859 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
860 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
861 that needed the lookup.
863 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
864 distinguished as "(=".
866 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
867 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
869 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
871 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
872 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
874 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
875 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
877 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
878 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
881 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
882 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
883 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
884 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
886 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
888 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
889 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
890 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
892 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
893 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
894 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
897 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
898 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
899 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
902 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
903 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
904 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
906 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
907 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
910 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
912 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
913 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
915 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
916 are not in the system include path.
918 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
919 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
920 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
921 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
923 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
924 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
925 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
927 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
929 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
930 an incoming connection.
932 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
935 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
936 fallback to "prime256v1".
938 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
939 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
945 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
946 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
947 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
948 client dropping the TLS connection.
950 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
951 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
953 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
954 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
955 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
956 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
959 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
960 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
961 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
962 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
963 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
964 check on the next write.
966 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
967 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
968 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
969 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
970 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
972 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
973 mime_regex ACL conditions.
975 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
976 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
977 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
979 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
980 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
981 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
982 an authenticate fail is not an error.
984 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
985 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
987 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
988 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
990 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
991 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
992 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
995 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
997 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
999 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1001 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1002 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1004 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1005 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1007 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1009 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1010 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1012 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1014 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1015 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1017 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1019 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1020 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1021 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1022 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1023 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1024 they will retry in-clear.
1025 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1026 at installation time.
1028 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1029 with the $config_file variable.
1031 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1032 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1033 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1034 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1035 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1037 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1038 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1039 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1040 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1041 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1043 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1045 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1046 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1047 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1048 list order is no longer honoured.
1050 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1051 for DKIM processing.
1053 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1054 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1056 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1057 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1058 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1059 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1061 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1062 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1064 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1065 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1067 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1068 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1070 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1072 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1073 cached by the daemon.
1075 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1076 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1078 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1079 keys are given for lookup.
1081 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1082 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1083 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1084 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1086 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1087 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1088 server-side so match that on older versions.
1090 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1091 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1092 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1094 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1095 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1097 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1098 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1099 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1100 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1101 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1102 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1103 initial truncated version.
1105 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1107 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1109 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1110 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1112 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1114 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1116 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1117 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1120 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1121 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1124 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1125 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1127 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1128 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1131 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1132 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1133 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1135 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1136 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1137 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1138 extraction. Accept either.
1144 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1147 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1149 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1152 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1153 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1154 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1155 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1157 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1158 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1159 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1161 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1162 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1163 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1166 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1169 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1170 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1171 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1172 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1173 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1175 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1176 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1177 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1179 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1181 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1182 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1184 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1185 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1187 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1190 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1191 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1193 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1194 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1195 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1197 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1198 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1199 specify a port-range.
1201 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1202 timeout value per server.
1204 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1205 now have the list separator specified.
1207 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1210 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1213 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1215 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1216 rather than the verbs used.
1218 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1219 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1221 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1223 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1224 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1226 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1227 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1229 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1230 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1232 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1234 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1236 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1237 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1238 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1239 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1241 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1243 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1244 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1246 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1247 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1249 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1251 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1253 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1255 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1256 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1258 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1259 added for tls authenticator.
1261 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1267 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1268 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1269 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1270 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1271 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1272 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1273 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1275 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1276 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1277 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1278 function when detected.
1280 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1281 cause callback expansion.
1283 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1284 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1285 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1286 instead of bool when processing it.
1288 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1289 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1291 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1293 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1295 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1297 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1298 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1300 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1301 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1302 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1303 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1304 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1305 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1307 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1308 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1311 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1312 version 3.3.6 or later.
1314 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1315 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1316 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1317 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1318 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1319 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1322 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1323 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1325 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1326 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1327 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1330 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1331 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1332 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1334 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1335 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1337 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1338 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1341 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1343 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1344 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1346 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1347 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1350 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1352 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1355 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1356 output list separator was used.
1361 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1362 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1365 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1366 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1368 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1370 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1371 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1377 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1379 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1380 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1381 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1382 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1383 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1384 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1386 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1387 utilities have not been installed.
1389 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1390 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1392 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1393 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1395 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1396 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1397 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1398 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1400 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1402 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1403 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1405 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1408 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1410 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1411 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1412 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1414 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1415 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1416 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1417 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1418 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1419 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1421 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1423 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1424 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1426 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1429 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1431 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1433 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1434 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1436 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1437 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1439 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1441 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1443 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1444 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1446 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1447 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1448 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1450 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1451 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1452 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1455 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1457 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1458 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1461 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1462 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1465 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1466 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1468 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1469 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1471 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1473 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1474 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1475 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1477 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1478 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1480 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1481 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1484 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1485 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1486 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1488 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1490 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1491 Christian Aistleitner.
1493 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1495 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1496 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1498 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1499 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1501 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1502 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1504 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1505 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1507 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1508 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1510 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1511 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1512 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1514 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1516 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1517 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1520 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1522 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1523 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1530 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1532 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1533 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1535 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1538 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1539 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1542 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1544 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1545 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1546 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1547 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1548 using channel bindings instead).
1550 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1551 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1552 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1553 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1554 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1557 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1559 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1561 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1562 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1564 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1565 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1566 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1568 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1570 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1572 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1573 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1575 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1577 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1579 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1581 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1582 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1584 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1586 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1587 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1590 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1591 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1593 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1594 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1597 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1599 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1601 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1602 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1604 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1607 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1608 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1610 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1611 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1613 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1615 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1617 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1620 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1623 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1625 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1626 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1627 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1628 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1630 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1632 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1633 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1634 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1635 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1638 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1639 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1640 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1642 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1643 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1644 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1645 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1647 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1648 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1649 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1650 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1651 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1652 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1653 delivery, as in LMTP.
1655 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1656 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1658 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1660 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1664 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1665 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1666 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1667 username as equal to the username.
1669 This change corrects that bug.
1671 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1672 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1673 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1675 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1677 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1678 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1679 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1680 NULL dereference and crash.
1682 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1684 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1685 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1686 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1688 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1690 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1691 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1692 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1693 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1694 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1695 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1696 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1697 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1698 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1699 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1700 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1702 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1703 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1705 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1706 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1709 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1710 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1711 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1712 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1713 an empty string is now equivalent.
1715 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1716 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1717 not performing validation itself.
1719 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1720 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1722 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1725 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1727 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1728 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1729 other false fix of the same issue.
1730 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1733 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1734 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1736 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1737 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1738 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1740 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1741 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1742 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1744 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1746 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1748 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1749 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1751 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1754 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1755 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1756 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1757 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1758 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1760 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1761 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1763 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1764 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1767 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1768 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1769 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1770 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1772 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1774 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1775 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1776 from multiple comments on this bug.
1778 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1780 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1781 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1784 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1785 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1787 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1788 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1794 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1796 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1802 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1803 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1804 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1806 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1808 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1811 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1813 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1815 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1817 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1818 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1820 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1821 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1823 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1824 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1826 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1827 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1828 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1830 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1832 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1833 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1835 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1837 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1839 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1840 non-compliant senders.
1841 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1843 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1844 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1845 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1847 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1848 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1849 in spool file corruption.
1851 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1852 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1853 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1856 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1857 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1858 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1860 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1861 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1863 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1865 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1867 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1869 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1870 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1871 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1873 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1874 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1875 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1876 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1878 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1879 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1881 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1882 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1883 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1884 resolver implementation change.
1886 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1887 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1889 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1891 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1893 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1894 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1896 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1897 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1899 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1900 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1902 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1903 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1904 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1905 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1906 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1908 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1910 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1911 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1912 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1914 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1916 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1917 read-only, out of scope).
1918 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1920 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1921 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1922 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1923 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1925 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1927 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1928 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1929 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1930 real issues in debug logging.
1932 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1933 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1935 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1936 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1937 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1939 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1940 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1941 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1944 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1945 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1947 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1948 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1949 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1950 needs to override this, it can.
1952 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1953 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1954 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1956 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1957 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1958 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1959 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1961 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1967 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1968 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1970 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1972 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1975 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1976 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1978 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1979 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1980 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1982 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1983 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1984 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1985 not safe for signals.
1987 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1988 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1989 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1990 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1993 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1995 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1996 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1997 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1998 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1999 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2001 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2002 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2003 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2004 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2005 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2006 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2008 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2009 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2010 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2011 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2013 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2014 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2015 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2016 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2018 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2019 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2020 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2021 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2022 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2023 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2024 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2025 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2026 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2028 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2029 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2030 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2031 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2033 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2034 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2035 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2036 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2037 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2038 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2039 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2040 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2041 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2042 details in the main documentation.
2044 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2046 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2048 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2049 repository when doing development or release builds.
2051 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2052 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2054 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2055 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2058 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2060 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2061 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2063 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2064 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2066 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2067 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2069 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2070 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2072 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2073 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2075 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2077 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2080 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2081 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2082 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2084 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2086 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2088 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2089 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2095 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2097 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2098 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2100 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2102 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2104 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2107 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2108 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2110 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2111 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2113 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2114 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2116 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2119 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2120 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2122 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2123 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2124 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2125 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2127 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2128 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2134 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2137 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2138 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2139 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2141 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2142 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2144 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2145 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2146 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2148 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2149 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2151 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2152 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2154 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2155 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2157 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2158 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2160 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2161 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2163 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2166 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2167 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2169 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2170 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2172 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2173 SQL string expansion failure details.
2174 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2176 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2177 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2179 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2180 extern declarations in function scope.
2181 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2183 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2184 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2185 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2188 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2189 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2191 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2192 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2194 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2195 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2197 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2198 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2200 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2201 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2204 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2206 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2208 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2209 Patch by Simon Arlott
2211 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2212 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2218 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2219 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2221 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2222 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2224 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2226 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2227 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2228 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2230 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2231 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2232 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2234 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2235 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2236 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2237 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2239 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2240 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2241 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2242 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2244 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2245 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2246 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2249 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2252 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2253 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2254 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2255 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2256 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2262 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2263 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2264 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2266 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2267 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2269 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2271 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2273 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2275 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2277 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2279 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2280 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2281 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2282 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2284 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2285 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2286 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2287 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2288 more caution in buffer sizes.
2290 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2292 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2294 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2296 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2298 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2300 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2302 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2304 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2305 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2306 ignore trailing whitespace.
2308 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2310 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2313 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2314 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2316 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2317 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2318 Notification from John Horne.
2320 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2323 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2324 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2327 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2330 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2331 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2332 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2334 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2335 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2336 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2339 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2340 option (effectively making it always true).
2342 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2343 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2345 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2346 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2348 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2349 run-time user, instead of root.
2351 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2352 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2354 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2355 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2358 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2359 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2360 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2362 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2364 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2370 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2371 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2374 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2375 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2378 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2379 Patch from Alain Williams
2381 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2383 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2384 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2386 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2387 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2389 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2391 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2393 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2394 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2396 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2398 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2400 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2401 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2402 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2404 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2405 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2407 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2408 Patch by Simon Arlott
2410 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2411 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2417 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2419 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2421 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2423 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2425 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2431 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2432 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2434 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2435 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2438 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2439 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2440 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2442 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2443 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2445 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2446 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2447 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2448 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2450 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2451 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2452 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2454 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2456 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2458 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2459 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2461 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2463 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2464 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2465 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2466 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2468 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2469 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2471 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2473 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2475 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2476 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2478 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2479 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2481 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2482 that they are available at delivery time.
2484 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2486 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2487 incoming_port log selectors.
2489 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2490 setting expands to an empty string.
2492 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2493 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2495 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2496 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2498 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2499 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2501 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2502 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2504 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2505 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2507 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2508 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2510 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2512 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2513 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2515 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2516 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2518 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2520 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2521 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2523 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2525 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2527 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2530 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2531 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2533 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2534 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2536 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2537 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2539 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2540 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2542 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2543 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2545 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2546 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2548 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2549 plus update to original patch.
2551 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2553 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2554 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2556 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2558 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2560 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2562 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2564 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2565 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2567 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2568 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2570 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2571 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2573 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2574 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2576 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2578 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2580 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2582 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2588 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2589 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2590 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2592 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2593 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2594 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2595 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2596 build errors in sieve.c.
2598 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2599 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2600 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2602 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2604 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2606 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2608 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2614 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2616 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2617 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2618 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2619 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2620 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2621 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2622 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2623 for iplsearch lookups.
2625 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2626 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2627 previously such lookups could never work.
2629 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2630 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2631 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2633 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2636 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2637 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2638 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2639 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2640 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2641 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2643 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2644 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2646 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2647 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2648 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2649 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2650 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2651 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2653 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2656 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2658 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2659 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2662 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2663 by clients under certain conditions.
2665 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2666 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2668 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2670 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2671 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2673 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2675 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2677 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2679 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2680 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2682 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2684 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2685 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2687 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2689 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2691 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2692 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2693 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2694 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2696 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2697 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2698 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2700 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2701 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2703 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2705 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2707 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2709 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2710 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2711 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2717 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2718 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2721 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2722 issue a MAIL command.
2724 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2726 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2728 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2729 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2730 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2731 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2732 item. This has been fixed.
2734 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2735 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2737 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2738 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2740 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2741 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2742 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2744 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2746 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2747 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2748 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2749 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2750 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2752 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2753 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2754 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2756 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2757 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2758 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2759 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2761 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2763 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2765 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2766 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2767 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2768 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2769 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2771 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2773 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2774 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2775 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2778 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2780 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2782 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2784 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2786 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2788 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2789 no_callout_flush is set.
2791 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2792 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2793 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2796 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2798 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2799 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2800 other ACL rejections are.
2802 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2803 with slight modification.
2805 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2806 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2808 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2809 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2812 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2813 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2815 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2817 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2818 expansion side effects.
2820 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2821 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2822 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2825 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2826 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2827 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2829 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2830 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2831 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2832 were accidentally chopped off.
2834 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2835 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2836 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2837 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2838 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2839 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2840 pipelining has not been advertised.
2842 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2844 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2845 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2846 This has been fixed.
2848 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2849 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2850 reported on Solaris.
2852 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2853 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2854 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2855 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2856 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2857 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2858 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2860 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2863 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2865 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2867 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2868 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2869 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2870 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2871 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2872 criteria to be more general.
2874 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2875 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2876 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2877 host_all_ignored option.
2879 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2880 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2881 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2882 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2883 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2884 is what is supposed to happen).
2886 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2887 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2888 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2889 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2890 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2893 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2894 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2895 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2896 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2897 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2898 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2901 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2903 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2904 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2906 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2907 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2909 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2911 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2913 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2914 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2915 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2916 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2917 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2918 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2919 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2920 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2921 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2922 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2923 least in a lot of common cases.
2925 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2926 advertised in response to EHLO.
2932 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2933 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2935 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2936 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2938 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2939 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2940 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2942 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2943 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2944 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2945 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2946 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2952 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2953 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2956 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2957 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2958 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2960 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2961 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2962 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2963 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2964 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2965 rather than extend the field.
2971 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2972 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2973 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2974 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2977 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2978 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2979 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2981 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2982 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2983 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2985 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2986 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2987 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2990 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2991 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2992 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2993 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2994 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2995 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2996 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2997 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2998 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2999 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3000 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3002 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3005 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3006 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3007 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3008 ignores EPIPE as well.
3010 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3011 (quoted-printable decoding).
3013 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3014 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3016 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3018 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3020 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3022 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3023 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3025 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3028 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3029 miscellaneous code fixes
3031 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3034 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3035 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3036 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3037 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3038 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3039 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3040 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3041 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3043 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3044 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3045 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3046 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3048 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3049 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3050 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3051 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3052 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3053 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3054 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3055 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3056 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3058 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3061 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3062 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3063 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3064 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3065 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3066 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3067 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3068 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3070 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3071 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3074 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3075 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3076 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3077 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3078 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3079 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3080 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3081 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3082 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3083 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3084 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3085 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3086 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3088 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3089 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3090 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3091 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3092 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3093 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3094 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3096 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3097 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3098 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3099 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3100 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3101 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3102 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3103 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3104 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3105 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3107 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3108 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3109 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3110 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3111 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3113 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3114 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3115 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3116 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3117 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3118 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3119 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3121 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3122 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3123 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3124 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3125 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3126 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3129 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3130 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3131 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3134 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3135 if any retry times were supplied.
3137 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3138 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3139 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3141 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3143 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3145 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3146 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3147 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3148 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3149 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3150 before) are ignored.
3152 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3153 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3155 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3156 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3157 committing the later change.]
3159 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3160 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3161 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3162 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3163 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3164 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3165 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3166 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3167 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3169 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3170 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3171 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3172 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3173 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3174 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3175 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3176 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3177 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3179 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3180 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3181 hammering the server.
3183 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3184 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3186 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3188 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3189 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3190 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3192 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3193 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3194 one case where this was not true.
3196 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3197 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3198 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3199 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3202 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3203 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3204 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3205 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3206 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3207 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3208 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3209 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3210 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3213 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3214 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3215 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3216 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3218 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3219 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3221 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3222 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3223 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3225 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3227 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3229 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3231 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3232 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3233 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3234 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3236 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3237 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3239 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3240 be meaningful with "accept".
3242 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3243 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3245 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3246 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3247 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3249 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3250 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3251 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3252 there is data to show.
3253 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3255 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3256 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3257 as well as the number of messages.
3259 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3260 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3261 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3263 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3264 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3265 have a flag are now skipped.
3267 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3268 Added the -emptyok flag.
3270 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3271 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3273 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3274 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3275 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3277 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3280 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3281 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3283 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3285 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3286 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3288 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3290 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3291 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3292 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3293 contravention of the specifications.
3295 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3296 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3297 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3299 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3300 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3301 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3303 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3305 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3306 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3307 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3308 some point in the past.
3310 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3311 transport during callout processing was broken.
3313 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3314 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3316 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3317 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3319 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3320 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3322 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3328 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3329 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3331 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3332 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3333 there is data to show.
3334 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3336 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3337 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3339 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3340 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3342 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3343 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3345 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3346 submissions from trusted users.
3348 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3349 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3351 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3352 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3353 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3354 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3355 there is now a framework to start from.
3357 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3358 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3359 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3361 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3363 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3365 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3367 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3368 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3369 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3371 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3374 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3375 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3376 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3378 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3379 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3380 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3383 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3384 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3385 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3386 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3387 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3389 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3390 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3392 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3394 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3395 operations in malware.c.
3397 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3400 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3401 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3402 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3405 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3406 statements to "add_header".
3408 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3409 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3411 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3412 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3415 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3419 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3420 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3421 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3424 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3425 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3427 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3428 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3430 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3431 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3432 any possible encoding problems.
3434 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3435 but not after initializing Perl.
3437 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3438 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3439 apparently, which is not desirable.
3441 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3444 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3447 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3449 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3450 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3451 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3452 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3454 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3455 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3456 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3458 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3459 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3460 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3463 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3464 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3465 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3466 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3467 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3473 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3474 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3476 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3479 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3480 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3481 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3482 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3483 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3484 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3485 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3486 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3489 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3491 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3492 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3493 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3495 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3496 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3497 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3500 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3501 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3503 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3504 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3505 option (which defaults to 0600).
3507 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3509 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3510 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3511 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3512 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3513 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3514 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3515 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3517 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3523 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3524 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3525 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3526 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3527 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3528 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3531 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3532 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3534 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3536 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3537 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3538 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3539 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3540 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3543 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3544 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3546 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3547 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3548 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3549 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3550 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3552 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3553 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3554 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3555 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3557 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3558 be the same on different OS.
3560 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3563 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3564 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3566 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3569 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3570 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3571 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3572 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3573 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3574 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3577 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3578 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3579 when Exim was called.
3581 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3582 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3584 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3585 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3586 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3587 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3589 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3590 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3591 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3592 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3595 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3596 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3597 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3599 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3600 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3601 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3603 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3606 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3607 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3608 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3609 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3610 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3611 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3612 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3613 values from the SRV records were lost.
3615 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3616 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3617 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3619 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3620 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3621 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3623 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3624 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3625 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3626 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3627 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3628 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3629 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3630 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3631 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3632 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3634 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3635 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3636 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3638 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3639 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3641 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3642 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3643 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3644 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3647 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3648 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3649 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3651 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3652 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3653 PH/23 above applies.
3655 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3656 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3657 (for which there is an explicit test).
3659 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3661 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3662 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3663 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3664 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3665 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3667 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3668 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3669 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3670 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3672 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3673 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3674 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3676 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3678 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3680 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3681 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3682 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3684 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3685 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3686 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3687 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3688 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3690 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3691 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3692 the message gets confusing).
3694 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3695 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3696 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3697 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3699 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3700 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3701 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3702 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3705 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3706 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3707 the different processes.
3709 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3711 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3713 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3714 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3716 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3717 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3719 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3720 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3721 messages matching specified criteria.
3723 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3725 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3726 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3728 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3729 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3730 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3731 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3732 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3733 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3734 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3735 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3736 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3737 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3739 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3740 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3741 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3743 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3745 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3746 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3747 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3748 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3749 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3750 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3751 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3754 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3755 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3757 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3759 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3761 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3763 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3764 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3765 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3766 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3767 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3768 size of the count of files.
3770 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3772 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3775 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3776 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3777 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3778 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3780 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3781 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3782 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3784 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3785 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3786 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3787 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3788 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3790 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3791 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3793 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3794 will now be deprecated.
3796 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3798 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3799 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3800 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3802 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3803 with very large, slow to parse queues
3805 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3807 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3809 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3810 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3811 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3814 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3815 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3816 Sieve code now uses this.
3818 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3819 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3821 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3822 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3824 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3826 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3827 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3828 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3829 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3830 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3832 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3833 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3834 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3835 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3837 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3839 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3841 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3842 is preferred over IPv4.
3844 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3845 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3846 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3847 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3848 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3849 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3850 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3852 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3853 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3854 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3856 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3858 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3859 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3860 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3861 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3862 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3863 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3864 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3865 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3866 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3867 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3868 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3870 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3871 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3872 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3878 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3880 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3881 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3883 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3884 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3885 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3887 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3889 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3892 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3895 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3896 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3897 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3900 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3901 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3903 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3904 inside the third argument.
3906 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3907 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3910 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3911 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3913 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3914 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3916 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3918 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3919 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3922 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3924 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3925 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3926 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3927 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3928 identical. For example:
3930 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3932 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3933 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3934 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3936 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3937 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3938 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3939 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3941 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3942 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3943 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3946 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3948 o fixes some comments
3949 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3950 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3951 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3952 and documents the missing references header update
3956 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3957 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3960 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3961 Electronic Mail") by including:
3963 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3965 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3966 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3967 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3968 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3969 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3971 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3973 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3975 The auto-replied keyword:
3977 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3978 message by an automatic process,
3980 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3982 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3983 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3985 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3986 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3989 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3990 to the default Received: header definition.
3992 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3994 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3995 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3996 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3998 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3999 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4000 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4002 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4003 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4004 and treats the condition as false.
4006 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4008 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4009 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4010 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4011 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4012 not changing the active code.
4014 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4015 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4017 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4018 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4020 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4023 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4024 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4025 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4026 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4027 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4028 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4029 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4030 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4031 the text comparison.
4033 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4034 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4035 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4036 The same fix has been applied.
4042 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4043 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4046 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4047 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4049 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4051 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4052 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4053 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4054 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4055 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4057 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4058 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4059 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4060 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4063 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4071 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4072 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4074 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4076 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4078 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4079 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4080 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4082 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4083 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4084 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4086 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4087 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4090 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4091 ${stat: expansion item.
4093 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4094 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4096 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4097 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4100 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4102 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4105 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4106 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4108 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4110 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4111 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4112 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4113 the end of the subprocess.
4115 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4116 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4117 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4118 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4119 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4121 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4123 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4125 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4126 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4128 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4130 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4132 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4133 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4136 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4138 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4139 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4140 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4142 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4143 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4145 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4146 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4148 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4149 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4151 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4152 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4154 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4155 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4156 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4157 contributed by a Radius user.
4159 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4160 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4162 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4163 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4165 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4168 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4169 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4172 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4173 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4174 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4175 header lines when this was not necessary.
4177 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4179 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4180 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4181 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4184 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4187 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4188 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4189 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4190 return code was incorrect.
4192 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4194 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4196 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4198 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4200 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4201 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4202 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4203 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4204 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4207 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4209 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4210 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4211 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4212 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4213 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4214 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4215 which is clearly wrong.
4217 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4219 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4220 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4221 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4224 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4225 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4227 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4229 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4230 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4232 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4233 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4235 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4236 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4238 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4239 recipients, not senders.
4241 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4242 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4244 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4246 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4248 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4249 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4250 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4251 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4253 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4255 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4256 clock is set back in time.
4258 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4259 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4261 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4262 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4264 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4265 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4268 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4269 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4272 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4275 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4277 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4278 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4279 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4281 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4282 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4283 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4284 helo verification defer as a failure.
4286 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4287 actual error message.
4293 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4295 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4296 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4297 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4298 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4300 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4302 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4303 can still be requested.
4305 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4306 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4307 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4308 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4310 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4311 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4312 circumstances, but probably never did.
4314 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4315 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4316 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4319 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4321 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4322 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4324 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4326 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4328 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4329 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4330 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4331 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4332 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4333 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4335 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4336 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4337 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4338 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4339 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4340 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4342 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4343 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4345 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4346 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4348 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4349 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4351 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4353 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4355 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4357 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4359 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4361 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4363 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4365 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4366 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4367 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4369 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4370 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4371 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4372 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4374 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4375 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4376 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4378 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4379 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4380 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4381 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4383 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4384 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4387 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4388 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4389 should work with maildirs and everything.
4391 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4392 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4394 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4397 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4398 function for BDB 4.3.
4400 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4402 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4403 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4406 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4407 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4408 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4409 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4410 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4411 formatting function string_vformat().
4413 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4414 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4415 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4416 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4417 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4418 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4419 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4420 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4422 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4423 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4426 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4427 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4429 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4430 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4431 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4432 test. It is now used for both.
4434 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4435 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4436 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4437 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4438 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4439 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4441 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4442 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4443 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4446 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4447 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4448 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4450 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4451 experimental DomainKeys support:
4453 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4454 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4455 the control was given.
4457 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4459 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4461 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4463 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4464 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4465 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4468 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4469 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4470 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4471 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4472 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4473 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4476 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4477 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4478 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4479 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4480 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4481 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4483 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4484 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4485 do -d+all out of habit.
4487 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4488 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4491 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4492 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4493 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4494 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4495 record types that Exim uses.
4497 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4498 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4499 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4500 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4501 non-existent file that was broken.
4503 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4504 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4506 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4507 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4508 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4510 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4512 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4513 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4514 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4515 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4516 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4519 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4520 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4521 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4522 at a slight CPU cost.
4524 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4525 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4527 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4530 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4532 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4533 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4539 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4540 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4542 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4544 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4546 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4547 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4549 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4550 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4551 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4552 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4553 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4554 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4557 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4558 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4559 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4560 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4563 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4564 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4565 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4566 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4567 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4568 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4569 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4572 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4573 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4575 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4576 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4577 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4578 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4579 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4580 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4582 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4583 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4584 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4585 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4587 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4590 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4591 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4593 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4594 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4595 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4596 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4599 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4601 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4602 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4604 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4605 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4606 to what was transported.)
4608 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4610 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4611 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4612 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4613 spamd_address settings.
4615 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4616 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4617 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4618 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4619 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4621 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4623 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4624 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4625 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4626 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4627 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4629 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4630 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4632 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4633 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4634 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4635 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4636 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4637 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4638 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4641 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4642 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4643 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4644 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4645 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4646 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4647 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4650 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4652 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4653 driver and ACL definitions.
4655 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4656 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4658 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4659 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4660 understands it better than I do:
4662 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4663 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4665 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4666 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4667 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4668 => three warnings about OTP not working
4669 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4671 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4672 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4673 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4674 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4676 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4677 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4679 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4680 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4681 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4683 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4684 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4687 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4688 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4691 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4692 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4693 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4695 warn !verify = sender
4696 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4698 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4699 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4701 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4703 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4704 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4706 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4707 nomenclature these days.)
4709 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4710 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4712 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4713 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4714 . First host does not offer TLS;
4715 . First host accepts first address;
4716 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4717 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4718 . Second host accepts second address.
4719 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4720 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4723 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4724 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4725 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4726 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4727 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4729 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4730 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4732 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4733 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4735 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4736 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4737 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4739 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4740 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4743 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4745 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4746 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4747 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4748 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4749 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4750 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4751 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4753 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4754 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4755 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4756 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4757 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4759 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4760 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4763 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4764 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4765 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4766 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4767 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4768 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4770 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4772 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4773 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4774 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4775 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4776 printable escape sequences.
4778 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4779 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4782 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4783 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4786 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4787 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4788 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4789 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4790 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4792 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4793 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4794 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4796 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4798 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4799 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4802 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4803 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4804 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4805 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4806 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4807 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4808 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4809 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4810 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4813 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4814 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4815 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4816 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4820 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4821 ----------------------------------------
4823 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4824 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4825 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4826 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4827 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4828 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4831 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4832 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4833 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4834 historical information.
4840 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4842 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4843 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4845 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4846 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4849 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4850 filter fails to execute.
4852 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4853 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4854 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4855 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4856 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4858 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4860 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4861 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4862 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4863 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4865 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4866 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4867 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4868 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4869 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4871 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4873 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4875 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4876 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4877 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4878 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4880 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4881 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4882 sender verification.
4884 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4885 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4887 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4889 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4892 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4893 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4895 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4896 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4898 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4899 information about exactly what failed.
4901 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4903 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4904 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4905 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4907 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4908 It is now set to "smtps".
4910 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4911 ignore_target_hosts.
4913 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4914 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4915 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4916 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4919 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4920 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4921 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4923 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4924 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4925 wake it up if nothing else does.
4927 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4928 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4929 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4932 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4933 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4935 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4937 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4938 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4939 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4940 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4941 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4942 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4943 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4944 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4946 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4947 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4948 than one IP address.
4950 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4951 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4952 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4953 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4955 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4956 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4957 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4958 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4959 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4962 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4963 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4964 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4965 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4967 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4968 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4971 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4972 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4973 $sender_host_address.
4975 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4976 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4977 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4978 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4979 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4982 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4984 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4985 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4987 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4988 just the host names, not the priorities.
4990 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4991 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4992 controlled by a keyword.
4994 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4995 multiple records are returned.
4997 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4998 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5001 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5003 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5004 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5006 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5007 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5008 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5010 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5012 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5014 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5016 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5017 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5018 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5019 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5020 because the tests only now provoked it.
5022 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5023 (this can affect the format of dates).
5025 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5026 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5027 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5028 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5030 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5032 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5033 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5034 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5035 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5037 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5038 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5039 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5041 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5044 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5045 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5046 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5047 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5048 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5049 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5052 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5053 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5054 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5057 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5058 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5059 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5061 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5062 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5063 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5064 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5065 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5066 so I produce this patch..."
5068 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5069 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5072 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5073 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5074 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5075 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5078 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5080 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5081 long debug lines gets shown.
5083 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5084 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5086 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5088 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5089 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5090 of $primary_hostname.
5092 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5093 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5094 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5095 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5096 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5097 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5098 by change 4.50/55 above.
5100 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5101 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5102 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5103 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5104 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5105 running as the user.
5108 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5109 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5110 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5113 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5114 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5116 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5117 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5118 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5119 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5120 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5122 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5123 This has been fixed.
5125 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5126 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5127 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5128 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5131 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5133 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5134 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5135 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5136 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5138 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5139 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5141 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5142 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5143 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5145 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5146 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5147 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5150 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5151 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5152 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5154 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5155 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5156 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5157 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5159 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5160 during host lookups.
5162 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5163 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5165 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5167 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5168 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5169 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5170 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5171 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5174 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5175 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5177 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5178 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5179 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5181 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5183 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5184 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5185 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5186 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5187 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5188 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5191 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5192 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5193 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5194 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5195 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5197 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5200 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5202 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5203 "vacation" handling.
5205 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5206 OS variants using glibc.
5208 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5211 ----------------------------------------------------
5212 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5213 ----------------------------------------------------
5219 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5220 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5223 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5224 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5227 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5228 filter fails to execute.
5230 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5231 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5232 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5233 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5234 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5236 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5237 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5238 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5239 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5241 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5242 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5243 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5244 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5245 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5247 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5249 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5250 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5251 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5252 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5254 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5255 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5256 sender verification.
5258 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5259 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5261 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5262 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5264 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5265 ignore_target_hosts.
5267 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5268 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5269 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5270 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5273 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5274 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5275 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5277 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5278 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5279 wake it up if nothing else does.
5281 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5282 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5283 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5286 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5287 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5289 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5291 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5292 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5295 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5296 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5299 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5300 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5301 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5302 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5303 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5306 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5307 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5310 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5311 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5312 $sender_host_address.
5314 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5316 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5317 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5318 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5320 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5323 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5324 (this can affect the format of dates).
5326 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5327 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5328 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5329 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5331 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5332 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5333 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5335 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5336 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5337 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5338 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5340 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5341 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5342 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5344 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5347 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5348 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5349 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5350 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5351 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5352 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5355 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5356 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5357 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5358 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5361 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5362 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5363 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5364 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5365 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5366 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5367 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5369 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5370 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5371 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5372 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5373 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5374 running as the user.
5377 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5378 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5379 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5382 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5383 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5384 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5385 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5386 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5388 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5389 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5390 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5391 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5394 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5395 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5396 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5397 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5398 because the tests only now provoked it.
5404 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5405 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5406 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5407 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5408 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5409 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5410 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5412 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5413 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5416 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5418 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5420 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5421 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5424 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5425 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5426 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5427 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5428 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5430 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5431 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5433 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5435 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5437 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5440 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5441 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5443 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5444 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5445 affecting debugging statements).
5447 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5449 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5450 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5451 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5452 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5453 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5454 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5455 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5456 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5457 after the received time, and all would be well.
5459 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5460 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5461 condition in an expansion string.
5463 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5465 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5466 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5467 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5468 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5469 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5470 job under whatever limits there are.
5472 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5474 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5477 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5478 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5479 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5480 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5483 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5484 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5485 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5486 binary data in such strings.
5488 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5490 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5491 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5492 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5493 failure, which is pointless.
5495 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5497 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5499 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5500 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5501 Sender: header lines.
5503 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5504 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5505 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5507 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5508 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5509 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5510 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5511 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5514 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5515 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5516 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5517 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5518 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5520 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5521 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5522 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5525 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5526 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5528 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5529 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5531 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5533 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5535 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5537 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5540 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5542 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5544 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5545 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5546 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5547 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5549 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5550 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5556 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5557 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5558 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5560 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5561 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5562 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5563 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5564 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5565 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5567 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5568 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5569 verification failure".
5571 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5572 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5573 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5574 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5576 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5577 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5578 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5579 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5580 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5581 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5582 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5583 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5584 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5585 treated as a timeout.
5587 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5588 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5589 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5590 not set for Exim filters).
5592 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5593 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5594 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5596 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5598 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5599 try to make them clearer.
5601 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5602 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5604 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5606 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5608 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5609 only the Cygwin environment.
5611 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5612 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5613 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5614 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5615 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5617 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5618 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5619 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5620 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5621 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5622 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5623 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5625 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5626 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5628 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5630 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5631 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5632 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5634 To: susanne@some.where
5636 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5637 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5638 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5639 of addresses in From: header lines).
5641 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5642 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5643 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5645 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5646 treated as non-personal.
5648 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5649 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5651 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5653 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5655 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5656 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5657 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5659 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5660 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5662 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5663 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5664 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5665 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5666 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5667 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5669 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5670 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5671 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5672 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5673 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5674 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5675 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5676 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5678 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5680 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5681 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5683 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5684 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5685 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5687 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5688 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5690 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5691 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5692 rather than long int.
5694 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5696 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5702 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5703 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5704 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5705 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5706 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5707 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5713 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5714 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5716 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5717 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5718 socklen_t is defined.
5720 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5723 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5726 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5727 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5728 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5729 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5730 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5732 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5733 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5734 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5735 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5737 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5738 of flapping under certain conditions.
5740 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5741 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5742 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5744 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5746 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5748 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5749 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5750 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5751 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5753 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5754 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5755 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5756 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5757 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5758 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5759 preserved with the message after it was received.
5761 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5762 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5763 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5764 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5765 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5766 test suite worked just fine.
5768 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5769 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5770 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5772 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5773 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5776 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5777 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5778 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5779 does not fully solve it.
5781 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5782 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5783 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5784 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5785 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5787 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5788 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5789 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5791 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5792 string, for example:
5794 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5796 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5797 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5798 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5799 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5800 the routers could not see them.
5802 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5803 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5805 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5806 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5809 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5810 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5811 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5812 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5813 that needed quoting.
5815 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5816 was not being matched caselessly.
5818 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5821 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5822 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5823 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5824 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5825 when use_sender is false.
5827 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5829 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5831 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5833 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5834 the configuration file.
5836 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5837 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5839 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5841 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5842 bytes in the message body.
5844 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5845 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5848 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5850 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5852 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5853 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5854 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5855 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5862 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5863 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5865 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5866 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5867 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5868 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5869 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5871 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5872 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5874 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5875 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5876 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5878 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5879 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5880 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5882 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5885 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5886 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5887 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5888 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5889 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5890 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5891 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5897 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5898 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5899 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5900 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5901 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5902 default (and expected) setting.
5904 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5905 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5906 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5907 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5909 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5910 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5912 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5915 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5916 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5917 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5918 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5919 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5920 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5922 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5923 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5924 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5926 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5927 part (NOT match_host).
5929 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5931 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5932 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5933 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5934 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5935 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5936 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5937 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5938 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5939 the same named file.
5941 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5942 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5945 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5946 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5947 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5948 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5951 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5952 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5953 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5955 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5957 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5959 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5961 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5962 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5964 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5965 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5966 before starting the TLS session.
5968 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5970 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5971 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5973 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5974 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5975 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5976 colon in the middle).
5982 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5983 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5984 multiple configurations are in use.
5986 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5987 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5988 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5989 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5990 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5991 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5993 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5994 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5996 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5997 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5998 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6000 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6001 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6004 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6005 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6007 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6009 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6010 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6012 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6020 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6021 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6022 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6023 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6024 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6026 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6029 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6030 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6031 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6032 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6033 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6034 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6036 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6037 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6038 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6039 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6040 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6041 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6042 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6045 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6046 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6047 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6048 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6049 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6051 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6053 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6054 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6055 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6057 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6059 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6060 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6061 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6064 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6065 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6067 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6068 Three changes have been made:
6070 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6071 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6072 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6073 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6074 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6076 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6079 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6080 the modified behaviour.
6086 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6089 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6090 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6092 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6093 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6094 try to track down a specific problem.
6096 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6097 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6098 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6100 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6103 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6104 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6105 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6106 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6107 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6108 some earlier ones do not.
6110 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6112 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6113 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6114 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6115 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6116 address literals are enabled, of course).
6118 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6120 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6121 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6122 by a command such as
6126 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6128 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6130 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6131 remained set. It is now erased.
6133 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6134 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6136 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6137 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6138 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6139 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6140 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6141 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6142 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6143 appropriate error code.
6145 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6146 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6147 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6148 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6149 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6150 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6152 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6153 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6154 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6156 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6157 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6158 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6159 terminate the header.
6161 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6162 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6163 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6165 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6166 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6167 (4.30/29). In particular:
6169 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6172 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6173 to write a maildirsize file.
6175 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6176 the transport, the new value overrides.
6178 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6181 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6182 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6183 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6186 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6187 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6188 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6191 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6192 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6193 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6195 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6196 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6199 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6200 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6201 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6203 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6205 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6207 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6209 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6210 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6213 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6214 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6215 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6216 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6217 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6218 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6219 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6222 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6223 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6224 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6225 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6226 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6229 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6230 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6231 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6232 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6233 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6234 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6235 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6236 cached value only when the same options are set.
6238 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6240 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6241 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6242 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6243 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6244 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6246 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6247 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6248 it is clearly obsolete.
6250 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6253 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6254 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6255 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6258 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6259 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6260 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6261 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6262 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6264 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6265 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6266 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6267 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6269 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6271 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6273 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6274 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6277 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6278 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6279 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6280 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6281 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6282 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6285 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6286 with the -f command-line option.
6288 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6289 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6290 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6291 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6292 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6293 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6295 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6296 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6299 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6300 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6301 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6302 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6303 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6304 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6305 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6306 buffer is too small.
6308 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6309 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6311 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6312 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6313 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6314 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6315 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6316 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6317 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6318 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6319 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6321 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6322 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6323 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6325 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6326 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6329 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6330 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6331 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6332 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6333 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6335 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6336 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6337 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6338 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6341 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6343 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6345 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6346 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6348 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6349 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6350 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6352 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6353 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6354 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6355 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6356 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6358 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6359 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6360 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6361 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6362 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6363 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6364 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6366 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6367 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6368 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6369 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6370 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6371 the test of how many are available.
6373 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6374 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6375 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6376 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6377 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6378 new message is started.
6380 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6381 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6383 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6384 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6386 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6387 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6388 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6391 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6392 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6393 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6394 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6395 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6396 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6397 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6399 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6400 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6401 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6402 interpreted as octal.
6404 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6407 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6408 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6409 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6410 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6411 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6412 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6414 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6415 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6416 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6417 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6419 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6420 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6421 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6422 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6424 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6425 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6428 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6429 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6431 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6433 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6434 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6435 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6436 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6438 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6439 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6440 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6441 supplied", which is not helpful.
6443 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6444 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6445 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6447 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6448 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6449 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6450 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6451 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6452 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6453 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6454 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6456 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6457 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6458 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6459 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6460 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6462 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6463 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6464 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6465 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6466 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6467 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6469 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6470 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6471 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6473 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6475 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6476 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6477 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6480 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6482 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6483 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6484 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6485 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6486 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6487 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6488 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6489 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6491 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6492 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6493 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6494 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6495 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6497 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6500 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6501 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6502 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6503 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6504 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6505 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6506 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6507 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6508 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6514 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6515 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6516 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6518 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6521 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6522 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6523 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6525 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6526 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6527 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6528 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6529 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6530 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6532 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6533 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6534 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6535 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6536 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6537 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6538 the Exim test suite.
6540 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6541 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6542 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6543 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6545 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6546 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6547 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6548 specify it in this variable.
6550 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6551 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6552 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6553 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6555 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6556 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6557 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6558 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6560 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6561 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6562 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6563 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6564 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6566 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6568 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6571 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6572 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6573 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6574 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6575 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6577 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6578 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6580 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6581 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6582 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6583 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6584 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6586 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6587 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6589 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6590 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6591 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6593 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6594 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6596 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6597 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6599 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6600 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6601 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6603 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6604 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6606 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6607 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6608 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6609 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6611 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6613 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6614 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6615 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6616 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6618 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6620 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6621 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6623 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6625 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6626 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6627 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6628 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6629 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6630 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6632 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6634 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6635 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6638 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6640 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6641 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6643 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6644 550 Sender verify failed
6646 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6647 the final line of the response.
6649 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6650 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6651 all other user lookups.
6653 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6656 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6657 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6658 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6659 result into an int without checking.
6661 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6662 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6663 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6665 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6666 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6667 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6668 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6670 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6673 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6674 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6676 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6677 to the empty sender.
6679 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6680 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6681 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6682 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6683 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6684 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6685 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6688 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6689 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6690 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6691 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6694 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6695 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6697 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6700 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6701 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6703 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6705 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6706 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6709 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6710 as soon as it is encountered.
6712 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6714 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6717 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6718 recognizes a tab character.
6720 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6721 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6722 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6723 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6725 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6727 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6730 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6732 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6734 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6735 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6738 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6739 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6740 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6741 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6742 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6744 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6745 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6747 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6748 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6749 list (.included file names were always shown).
6751 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6752 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6753 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6756 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6757 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6759 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6761 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6763 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6765 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6766 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6767 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6768 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6769 failures to open the logs.
6771 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6772 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6773 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6774 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6775 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6776 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6777 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6783 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6784 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6785 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6788 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6789 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6790 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6792 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6793 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6794 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6796 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6797 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6798 causing some misleading effects.
6800 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6801 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6802 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6804 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6805 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6806 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6807 queue-runner function directly.
6813 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6816 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6817 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6818 was always written to the default place.
6820 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6821 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6822 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6824 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6826 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6828 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6829 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6830 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6832 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6833 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6836 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6837 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6838 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6840 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6841 command line option is disabled.
6843 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6844 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6846 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6848 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6850 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6851 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6853 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6855 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6856 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6857 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6858 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6859 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6860 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6862 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6863 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6866 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6867 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6869 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6870 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6872 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6873 received was valid base64.
6875 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6876 name of the variable that was being set.
6878 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6880 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6881 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6882 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6883 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6884 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6885 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6887 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6889 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6890 nor realm was specified.
6892 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6893 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6894 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6895 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6897 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6898 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6899 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6901 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6902 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6903 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6905 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6906 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6907 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6908 some systems use these upper case variants.
6910 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6911 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6912 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6913 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6915 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6917 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6918 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6920 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6921 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6924 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6926 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6927 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6928 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6929 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6931 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6934 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6935 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6936 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6938 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6939 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6941 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6942 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6943 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6944 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6946 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6947 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6948 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6950 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6952 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6953 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6954 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6955 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6958 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6959 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6960 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6962 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6964 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6965 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6967 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6968 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6970 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6971 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6972 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6973 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6974 when emails are that large.
6981 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6982 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6984 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6985 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6986 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6988 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6989 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6990 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6992 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6993 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6994 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6995 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6996 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6998 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6999 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7000 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7001 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7002 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7005 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7006 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7007 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7008 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7009 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7010 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7011 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7012 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7013 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7014 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7015 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7016 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7017 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7018 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7020 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7021 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7024 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7025 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7026 error should be diagnosed.
7028 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7029 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7030 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7031 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7032 appeared instead of "NULL".
7034 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7035 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7036 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7037 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7038 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7039 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7042 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7043 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7044 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7050 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7051 or receiver verification errors.
7053 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7056 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7057 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7058 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7059 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7061 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7062 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7063 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7064 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7065 shouldn't happen again.
7067 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7068 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7069 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7071 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7072 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7074 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7076 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7077 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7079 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7080 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7083 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7084 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7085 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7087 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7088 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7089 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7090 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7092 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7093 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7094 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7095 to define what should happen).
7097 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7098 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7099 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7101 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7103 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7105 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7106 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7108 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7109 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7110 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7111 structure in all cases.
7113 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7114 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7115 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7116 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7118 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7119 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7122 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7123 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7125 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7126 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7128 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7129 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7130 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7132 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7133 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7134 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7136 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7137 the book and for uniformity.
7139 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7141 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7142 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7143 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7144 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7145 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7146 non-existent command as the problem.
7148 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7149 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7150 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7152 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7154 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7155 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7156 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7158 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7159 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7160 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7161 timestamps using strftime().
7163 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7164 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7166 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7167 transport-time rewrites.
7169 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7170 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7171 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7172 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7174 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7175 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7177 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7178 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7179 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7180 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7183 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7184 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7185 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7186 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7187 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7188 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7189 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7191 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7192 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7193 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7194 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7195 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7197 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7198 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7199 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7200 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7201 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7202 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7203 remaining text gets split now.
7205 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7206 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7207 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7208 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7210 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7211 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7212 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7213 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7216 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7217 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7218 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7219 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7220 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7221 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7222 passed through if needed.
7224 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7225 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7226 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7227 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7228 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7229 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7231 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7232 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7233 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7234 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7235 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7237 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7238 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7239 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7240 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7241 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7243 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7244 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7247 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7248 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7249 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7250 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7251 mayhem of various kinds.
7253 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7254 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7255 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7256 the right test for positive values.
7258 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7259 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7260 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7261 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7262 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7263 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7264 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7265 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7266 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7267 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7270 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7273 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7274 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7277 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7278 the existing equality matching.
7280 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7281 dealing with inode numbers.
7283 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7284 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7285 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7287 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7288 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7289 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7290 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7293 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7294 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7295 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7296 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7297 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7298 relay addresses has also been removed.
7300 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7302 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7303 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7304 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7306 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7307 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7308 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7309 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7310 processing applies to CR:
7312 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7313 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7315 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7316 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7317 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7318 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7320 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7321 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7322 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7324 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7325 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7326 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7327 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7328 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7329 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7332 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7335 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7336 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7337 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7338 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7341 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7343 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7345 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7347 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7348 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7349 not considered personal.
7351 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7353 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7355 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7357 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7358 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7359 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7360 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7361 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7362 header lines, and spool format errors.
7364 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7365 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7366 for more flexibility.
7368 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7369 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7370 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7372 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7375 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7376 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7377 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7378 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7379 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7380 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7381 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7382 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7383 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7385 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7386 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7387 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7388 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7389 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7390 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7391 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7393 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7394 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7395 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7397 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7398 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7399 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7400 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7401 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7402 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7403 instead of killing the process with assert().
7405 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7406 than Unicode encoding.
7408 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7409 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7410 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7411 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7413 77. Added process_log_path.
7415 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7416 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7418 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7419 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7421 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7422 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7423 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7425 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7426 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7427 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7428 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7429 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7432 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7433 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7436 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7437 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7438 they will be used during message reception.
7444 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.