1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
263 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
264 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
265 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
267 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
269 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
270 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
273 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
274 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
275 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
277 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
279 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
281 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
282 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
283 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
285 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
286 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
287 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
289 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
290 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
292 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
293 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
296 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
297 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
298 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
299 should both provide the file and set the option.
300 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
302 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
303 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
305 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
306 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
307 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
308 Authentication-Results: header.
310 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
311 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
312 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
313 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
315 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
316 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
317 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
318 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
319 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
320 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
321 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
323 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
324 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
325 copies while it is still usable.
327 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
328 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
329 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
331 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
332 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
334 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
335 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
336 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
337 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
339 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
340 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
341 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
344 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
345 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
346 - the pipe transport command
347 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
348 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
350 - paths used by single-key lookups
351 Previously this was permitted.
353 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
354 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
355 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
356 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
358 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
359 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
360 support larger malloc requests.
362 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
363 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
364 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
365 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
367 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
368 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
369 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
370 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
373 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
374 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
375 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
376 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
377 data being length-specified.
379 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
380 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
381 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
382 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
384 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
385 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
386 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
387 not being properly tracked.
389 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
390 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
391 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
392 minute could be seen.
394 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
395 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
396 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
398 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
399 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
401 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
402 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
405 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
407 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
408 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
410 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
411 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
412 filesystem as sufficient validation.
414 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
415 argument is supplied.
417 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
418 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
419 access under Exim's current working directory.
421 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
422 Previously no event was raised.
424 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
425 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
426 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
429 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
430 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
431 the size of the signature hash.
433 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
434 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
436 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
437 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
438 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
439 dropped between messages.
441 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
442 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
443 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
444 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
446 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
447 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
448 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
449 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
450 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
451 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
452 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
453 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
454 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
456 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
457 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
458 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
460 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
461 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
468 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
469 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
471 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
472 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
475 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
478 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
480 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
482 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
483 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
485 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
486 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
487 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
488 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
489 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
490 suitably configured).
492 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
493 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
495 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
496 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
499 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
500 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
502 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
503 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
504 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
505 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
508 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
509 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
510 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
512 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
515 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
516 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
518 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
519 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
520 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
521 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
524 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
525 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
526 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
527 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
530 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
531 shared (NFS) environment.
533 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
534 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
537 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
538 on some platforms for bit 31.
540 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
541 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
542 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
543 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
544 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
545 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
546 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
547 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
549 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
551 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
552 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
554 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
555 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
558 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
559 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
562 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
563 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
564 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
567 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
568 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
569 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
571 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
572 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
573 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
574 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
575 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
577 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
580 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
581 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
582 be requested on all coneections.
584 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
585 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
587 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
589 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
590 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
591 one for these; the option was ignored.
593 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
594 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
595 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
596 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
598 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
599 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
600 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
603 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
604 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
605 error ignored was made.
607 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
609 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
610 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
611 values, to catch one form of exploit.
613 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
614 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
615 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
617 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
618 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
621 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
622 them in our smtp response.
624 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
625 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
626 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
627 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
628 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
630 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
631 link count into consideration.
633 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
634 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
636 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
637 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
638 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
641 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
643 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
645 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
647 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
648 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
649 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
650 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
652 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
654 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
655 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
658 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
659 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
660 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
662 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
663 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
664 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
666 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
667 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
668 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
669 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
670 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
671 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
672 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
673 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
675 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
676 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
677 resulted in an indefinite loop.
679 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
680 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
681 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
687 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
688 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
690 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
691 non-signal-safe functions being used.
693 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
694 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
695 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
697 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
698 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
699 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
701 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
702 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
703 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
704 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
705 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
708 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
709 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
711 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
712 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
713 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
714 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
715 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
716 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
717 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
719 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
720 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
722 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
725 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
726 Previously this would segfault.
728 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
731 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
732 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
733 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
734 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
735 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
736 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
738 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
740 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
741 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
742 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
743 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
745 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
747 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
748 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
749 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
750 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
752 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
754 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
756 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
757 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
758 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
760 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
761 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
762 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
764 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
766 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
767 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
768 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
769 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
771 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
772 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
773 promised '?' replacement.
775 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
777 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
778 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
779 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
780 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
781 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
783 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
784 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
785 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
787 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
788 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
789 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
791 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
792 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
793 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
795 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
796 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
797 hope that is portable enough.
799 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
800 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
801 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
802 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
804 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
805 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
806 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
808 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
809 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
810 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
811 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
813 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
814 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
816 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
817 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
818 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
819 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
821 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
822 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
823 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
825 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
826 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
827 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
828 the previous G, M, k.
830 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
831 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
834 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
835 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
836 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
837 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
839 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
840 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
842 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
843 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
844 off past the nul-terimation.
846 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
847 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
848 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
849 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
850 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
852 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
854 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
855 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
856 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
859 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
860 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
862 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
863 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
864 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
866 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
867 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
868 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
870 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
871 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
877 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
878 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
879 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
880 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
881 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
882 be defined in redis_servers.
884 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
885 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
887 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
888 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
889 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
890 extant use locations.
892 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
893 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
895 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
896 Previously only the last row was returned.
898 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
899 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
900 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
901 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
904 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
905 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
906 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
907 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
908 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
909 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
910 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
911 Main pool for expansions.
912 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
913 active in the testsuite.
914 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
916 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
917 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
918 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
919 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
922 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
923 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
926 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
927 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
928 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
930 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
931 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
932 ClamAV interface method is removed.
934 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
935 rows affected is given instead).
937 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
938 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
940 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
941 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
942 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
943 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
944 for all multi-message initiating connections.
946 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
947 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
948 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
950 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
951 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
952 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
953 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
956 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
957 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
958 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
961 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
963 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
964 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
966 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
967 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
968 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
970 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
971 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
972 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
975 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
976 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
978 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
979 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
980 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
982 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
983 for the build is renamed.
985 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
986 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
987 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
989 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
990 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
991 result replacing the original.
993 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
994 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
995 and the resources needed to be freed.
997 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
999 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1002 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1003 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1004 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1005 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1007 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1008 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1010 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1011 newer versions of the scanner.
1013 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1014 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1015 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1016 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1017 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1018 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1019 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1021 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1022 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1023 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1024 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1025 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1026 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1027 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1028 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1029 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1030 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1032 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1033 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1035 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1037 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1038 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1040 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1041 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1043 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1044 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1045 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1047 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1048 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1049 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1050 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1052 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1053 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1056 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1057 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1059 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1060 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1061 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1062 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1063 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1065 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1066 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1069 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1070 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1072 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1075 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1076 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1077 "bare" representation.
1079 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1080 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1081 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1082 corrupted the output.
1088 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1089 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1090 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1091 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1093 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1094 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1096 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1097 This permits better logging.
1099 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1100 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1101 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1102 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1103 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1104 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1106 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1107 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1110 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1111 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1112 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1114 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1115 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1117 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1118 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1119 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1120 client, there is no benefit for these.
1121 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1122 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1123 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1126 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1127 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1129 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1130 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1131 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1133 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1134 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1136 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1137 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1138 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1139 signature and again for transmission.
1141 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1142 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1143 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1145 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1146 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1147 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1148 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1149 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1150 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1151 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1153 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1154 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1155 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1156 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1158 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1159 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1160 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1161 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1162 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1163 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1166 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1167 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1168 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1169 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1172 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1173 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1174 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1175 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1178 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1179 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1182 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1183 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1184 banner-time rejection.
1186 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1189 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1190 is the name of a transport.
1193 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1195 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1196 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1198 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1199 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1200 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1203 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1204 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1205 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1206 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1208 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1209 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1210 initial verify call returned a defer.
1212 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1213 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1215 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1216 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1218 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1219 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1221 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1222 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1224 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1225 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1228 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1229 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1231 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1232 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1233 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1235 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1236 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1237 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1238 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1240 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1241 and confused the parent.
1243 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1244 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1246 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1249 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1250 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1251 out-of-order delivery.
1253 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1254 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1255 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1258 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1259 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1262 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1263 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1264 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1266 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1267 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1268 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1269 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1270 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1271 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1273 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1274 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1275 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1277 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1278 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1279 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1281 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1282 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1283 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1284 though a different problem.
1290 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1291 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1293 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1295 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1296 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1298 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1299 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1301 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1302 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1303 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1304 before acknowledging the chunk.
1306 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1307 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1308 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1310 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1311 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1312 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1315 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1316 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1317 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1319 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1320 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1322 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1323 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1324 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1325 body hash calculated value.
1327 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1328 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1329 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1331 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1333 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1334 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1336 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1337 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1338 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1340 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1341 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1342 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1343 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1344 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1345 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1347 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1348 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1349 past that check, despite the cost.
1351 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1352 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1353 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1355 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1356 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1357 TLS library to consume.
1359 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1361 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1363 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1364 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1365 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1366 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1367 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1368 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1369 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1371 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1373 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1375 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1376 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1377 should be warning-free.
1379 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1381 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1382 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1384 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1385 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1386 general solution here.
1388 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1389 already-broken messages in the queue.
1391 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1393 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1399 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1400 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1402 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1403 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1404 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1406 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1407 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1408 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1409 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1410 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1411 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1412 if one fails this test.
1413 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1414 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1416 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1417 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1419 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1420 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1422 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1423 in rewrites and routers.
1425 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1426 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1428 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1429 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1431 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1433 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1436 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1437 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1438 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1439 connection after a verify cache hit.
1440 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1442 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1443 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1445 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1446 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1447 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1448 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1449 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1451 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1452 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1454 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1455 Previously they were not counted.
1457 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1458 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1459 that needed the lookup.
1461 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1462 distinguished as "(=".
1464 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1465 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1467 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1469 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1470 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1472 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1473 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1475 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1476 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1479 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1480 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1481 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1482 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1484 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1486 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1487 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1488 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1490 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1491 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1492 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1495 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1496 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1497 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1500 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1501 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1502 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1504 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1505 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1508 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1510 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1511 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1513 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1514 are not in the system include path.
1516 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1517 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1518 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1519 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1521 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1522 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1523 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1525 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1527 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1528 an incoming connection.
1530 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1533 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1534 fallback to "prime256v1".
1536 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1537 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1543 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1544 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1545 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1546 client dropping the TLS connection.
1548 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1549 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1551 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1552 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1553 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1554 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1557 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1558 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1559 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1560 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1561 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1562 check on the next write.
1564 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1565 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1566 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1567 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1568 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1570 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1571 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1573 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1574 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1575 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1577 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1578 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1579 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1580 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1582 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1583 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1585 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1586 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1588 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1589 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1590 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1593 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1595 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1597 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1599 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1600 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1602 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1603 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1605 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1607 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1608 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1610 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1612 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1613 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1615 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1617 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1618 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1619 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1620 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1621 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1622 they will retry in-clear.
1623 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1624 at installation time.
1626 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1627 with the $config_file variable.
1629 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1630 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1631 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1632 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1633 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1635 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1636 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1637 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1638 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1639 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1641 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1643 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1644 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1645 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1646 list order is no longer honoured.
1648 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1649 for DKIM processing.
1651 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1652 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1654 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1655 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1656 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1657 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1659 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1660 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1662 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1663 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1665 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1666 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1668 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1670 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1671 cached by the daemon.
1673 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1674 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1676 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1677 keys are given for lookup.
1679 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1680 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1681 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1682 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1684 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1685 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1686 server-side so match that on older versions.
1688 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1689 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1690 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1692 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1693 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1695 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1696 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1697 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1698 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1699 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1700 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1701 initial truncated version.
1703 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1705 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1707 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1708 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1710 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1712 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1714 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1715 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1718 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1719 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1722 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1723 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1725 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1726 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1729 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1730 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1731 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1733 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1734 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1735 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1736 extraction. Accept either.
1742 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1745 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1747 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1750 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1751 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1752 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1753 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1755 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1756 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1757 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1759 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1760 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1761 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1764 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1767 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1768 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1769 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1770 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1771 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1773 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1774 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1775 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1777 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1779 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1780 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1782 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1783 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1785 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1788 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1789 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1791 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1792 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1793 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1795 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1796 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1797 specify a port-range.
1799 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1800 timeout value per server.
1802 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1803 now have the list separator specified.
1805 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1808 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1811 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1813 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1814 rather than the verbs used.
1816 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1817 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1819 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1821 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1822 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1824 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1825 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1827 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1828 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1830 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1832 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1834 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1835 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1836 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1837 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1839 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1841 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1842 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1844 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1845 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1847 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1849 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1851 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1853 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1854 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1856 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1857 added for tls authenticator.
1859 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1865 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1866 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1867 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1868 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1869 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1870 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1871 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1873 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1874 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1875 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1876 function when detected.
1878 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1879 cause callback expansion.
1881 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1882 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1883 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1884 instead of bool when processing it.
1886 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1887 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1889 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1891 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1893 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1895 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1896 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1898 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1899 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1900 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1901 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1902 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1903 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1905 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1906 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1909 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1910 version 3.3.6 or later.
1912 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1913 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1914 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1915 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1916 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1917 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1920 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1921 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1923 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1924 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1925 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1928 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1929 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1930 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1932 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1933 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1935 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1936 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1939 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1941 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1942 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1944 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1945 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1948 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1950 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1953 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1954 output list separator was used.
1959 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1960 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1963 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1964 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1966 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1968 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1969 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1975 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1977 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1978 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1979 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1980 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1981 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1982 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1984 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1985 utilities have not been installed.
1987 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1988 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1990 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1991 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1993 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1994 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1995 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1996 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1998 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2000 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2001 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2003 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2006 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2008 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2009 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2010 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2012 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2013 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2014 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2015 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2016 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2017 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2019 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2021 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2022 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2024 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2027 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2029 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2031 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2032 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2034 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2035 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2037 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2039 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2041 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2042 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2044 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2045 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2046 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2048 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2049 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2050 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2053 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2055 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2056 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2059 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2060 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2063 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2064 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2066 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2067 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2069 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2071 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2072 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2073 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2075 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2076 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2078 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2079 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2082 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2083 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2084 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2086 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2088 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2089 Christian Aistleitner.
2091 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2093 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2094 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2096 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2097 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2099 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2100 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2102 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2103 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2105 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2106 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2108 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2109 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2110 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2112 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2114 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2115 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2118 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2120 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2121 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2128 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2130 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2131 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2133 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2136 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2137 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2140 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2142 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2143 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2144 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2145 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2146 using channel bindings instead).
2148 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2149 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2150 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2151 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2152 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2155 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2157 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2159 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2160 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2162 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2163 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2164 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2166 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2168 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2170 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2171 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2173 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2175 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2177 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2179 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2180 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2182 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2184 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2185 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2188 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2189 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2191 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2192 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2195 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2197 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2199 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2200 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2202 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2205 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2206 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2208 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2209 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2211 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2213 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2215 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2218 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2221 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2223 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2224 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2225 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2226 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2228 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2230 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2231 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2232 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2233 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2236 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2237 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2238 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2240 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2241 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2242 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2243 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2245 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2246 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2247 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2248 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2249 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2250 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2251 delivery, as in LMTP.
2253 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2254 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2256 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2258 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2262 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2263 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2264 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2265 username as equal to the username.
2267 This change corrects that bug.
2269 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2270 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2271 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2273 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2275 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2276 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2277 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2278 NULL dereference and crash.
2280 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2282 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2283 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2284 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2286 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2288 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2289 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2290 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2291 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2292 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2293 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2294 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2295 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2296 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2297 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2298 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2300 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2301 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2303 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2304 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2307 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2308 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2309 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2310 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2311 an empty string is now equivalent.
2313 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2314 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2315 not performing validation itself.
2317 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2318 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2320 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2323 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2325 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2326 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2327 other false fix of the same issue.
2328 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2331 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2332 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2334 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2335 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2336 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2338 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2339 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2340 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2342 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2344 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2346 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2347 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2349 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2352 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2353 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2354 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2355 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2356 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2358 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2359 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2361 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2362 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2365 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2366 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2367 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2368 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2370 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2372 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2373 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2374 from multiple comments on this bug.
2376 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2378 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2379 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2382 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2383 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2385 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2386 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2392 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2394 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2400 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2401 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2402 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2404 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2406 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2409 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2411 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2413 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2415 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2416 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2418 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2419 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2421 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2422 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2424 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2425 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2426 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2428 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2430 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2431 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2433 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2435 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2437 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2438 non-compliant senders.
2439 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2441 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2442 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2443 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2445 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2446 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2447 in spool file corruption.
2449 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2450 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2451 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2454 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2455 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2456 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2458 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2459 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2461 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2463 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2465 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2467 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2468 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2469 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2471 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2472 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2473 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2474 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2476 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2477 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2479 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2480 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2481 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2482 resolver implementation change.
2484 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2485 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2487 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2489 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2491 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2492 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2494 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2495 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2497 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2498 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2500 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2501 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2502 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2503 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2504 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2506 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2508 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2509 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2510 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2512 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2514 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2515 read-only, out of scope).
2516 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2518 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2519 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2520 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2521 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2523 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2525 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2526 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2527 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2528 real issues in debug logging.
2530 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2531 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2533 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2534 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2535 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2537 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2538 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2539 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2542 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2543 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2545 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2546 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2547 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2548 needs to override this, it can.
2550 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2551 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2552 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2554 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2555 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2556 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2557 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2559 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2565 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2566 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2568 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2570 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2573 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2574 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2576 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2577 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2578 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2580 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2581 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2582 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2583 not safe for signals.
2585 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2586 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2587 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2588 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2591 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2593 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2594 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2595 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2596 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2597 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2599 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2600 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2601 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2602 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2603 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2604 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2606 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2607 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2608 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2609 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2611 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2612 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2613 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2614 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2616 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2617 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2618 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2619 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2620 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2621 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2622 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2623 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2624 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2626 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2627 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2628 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2629 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2631 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2632 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2633 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2634 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2635 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2636 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2637 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2638 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2639 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2640 details in the main documentation.
2642 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2644 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2646 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2647 repository when doing development or release builds.
2649 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2650 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2652 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2653 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2656 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2658 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2659 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2661 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2662 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2664 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2665 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2667 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2668 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2670 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2671 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2673 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2675 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2678 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2679 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2680 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2682 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2684 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2686 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2687 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2693 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2695 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2696 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2698 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2700 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2702 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2705 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2706 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2708 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2709 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2711 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2712 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2714 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2717 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2718 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2720 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2721 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2722 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2723 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2725 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2726 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2732 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2735 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2736 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2737 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2739 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2740 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2742 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2743 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2744 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2746 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2747 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2749 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2750 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2752 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2753 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2755 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2756 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2758 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2759 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2761 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2764 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2765 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2767 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2768 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2770 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2771 SQL string expansion failure details.
2772 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2774 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2775 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2777 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2778 extern declarations in function scope.
2779 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2781 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2782 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2783 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2786 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2787 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2789 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2790 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2792 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2793 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2795 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2796 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2798 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2799 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2802 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2804 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2806 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2807 Patch by Simon Arlott
2809 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2810 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2816 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2817 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2819 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2820 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2822 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2824 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2825 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2826 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2828 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2829 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2830 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2832 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2833 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2834 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2835 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2837 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2838 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2839 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2840 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2842 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2843 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2844 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2847 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2850 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2851 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2852 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2853 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2854 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2860 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2861 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2862 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2864 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2865 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2867 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2869 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2871 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2873 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2875 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2877 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2878 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2879 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2880 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2882 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2883 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2884 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2885 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2886 more caution in buffer sizes.
2888 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2890 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2892 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2894 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2896 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2898 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2900 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2902 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2903 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2904 ignore trailing whitespace.
2906 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2908 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2911 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2912 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2914 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2915 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2916 Notification from John Horne.
2918 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2921 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2922 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2925 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2928 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2929 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2930 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2932 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2933 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2934 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2937 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2938 option (effectively making it always true).
2940 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2941 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2943 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2944 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2946 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2947 run-time user, instead of root.
2949 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2950 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2952 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2953 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2956 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2957 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2958 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2960 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2962 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2968 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2969 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2972 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2973 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2976 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2977 Patch from Alain Williams
2979 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2981 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2982 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2984 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2985 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2987 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2989 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2991 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2992 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2994 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2996 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2998 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2999 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3000 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3002 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3003 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3005 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3006 Patch by Simon Arlott
3008 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3009 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3015 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3017 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3019 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3021 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3023 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3029 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3030 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3032 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3033 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3036 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3037 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3038 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3040 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3041 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3043 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3044 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3045 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3046 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3048 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3049 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3050 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3052 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3054 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3056 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3057 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3059 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3061 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3062 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3063 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3064 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3066 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3067 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3069 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3071 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3073 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3074 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3076 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3077 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3079 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3080 that they are available at delivery time.
3082 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3084 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3085 incoming_port log selectors.
3087 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3088 setting expands to an empty string.
3090 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3091 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3093 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3094 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3096 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3097 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3099 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3100 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3102 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3103 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3105 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3106 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3108 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3110 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3111 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3113 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3114 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3116 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3118 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3119 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3121 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3123 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3125 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3128 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3129 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3131 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3132 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3134 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3135 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3137 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3138 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3140 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3141 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3143 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3144 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3146 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3147 plus update to original patch.
3149 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3151 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3152 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3154 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3156 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3158 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3160 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3162 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3163 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3165 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3166 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3168 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3169 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3171 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3172 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3174 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3176 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3178 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3180 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3186 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3187 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3188 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3190 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3191 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3192 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3193 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3194 build errors in sieve.c.
3196 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3197 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3198 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3200 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3202 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3204 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3206 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3212 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3214 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3215 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3216 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3217 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3218 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3219 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3220 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3221 for iplsearch lookups.
3223 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3224 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3225 previously such lookups could never work.
3227 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3228 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3229 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3231 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3234 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3235 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3236 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3237 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3238 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3239 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3241 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3242 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3244 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3245 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3246 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3247 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3248 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3249 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3251 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3254 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3256 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3257 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3260 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3261 by clients under certain conditions.
3263 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3264 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3266 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3268 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3269 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3271 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3273 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3275 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3277 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3278 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3280 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3282 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3283 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3285 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3287 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3289 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3290 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3291 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3292 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3294 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3295 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3296 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3298 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3299 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3301 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3303 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3305 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3307 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3308 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3309 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3315 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3316 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3319 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3320 issue a MAIL command.
3322 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3324 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3326 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3327 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3328 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3329 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3330 item. This has been fixed.
3332 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3333 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3335 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3336 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3338 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3339 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3340 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3342 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3344 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3345 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3346 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3347 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3348 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3350 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3351 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3352 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3354 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3355 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3356 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3357 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3359 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3361 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3363 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3364 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3365 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3366 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3367 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3369 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3371 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3372 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3373 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3376 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3378 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3380 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3382 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3384 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3386 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3387 no_callout_flush is set.
3389 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3390 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3391 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3394 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3396 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3397 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3398 other ACL rejections are.
3400 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3401 with slight modification.
3403 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3404 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3406 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3407 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3410 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3411 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3413 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3415 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3416 expansion side effects.
3418 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3419 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3420 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3423 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3424 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3425 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3427 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3428 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3429 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3430 were accidentally chopped off.
3432 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3433 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3434 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3435 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3436 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3437 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3438 pipelining has not been advertised.
3440 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3442 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3443 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3444 This has been fixed.
3446 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3447 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3448 reported on Solaris.
3450 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3451 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3452 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3453 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3454 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3455 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3456 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3458 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3461 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3463 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3465 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3466 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3467 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3468 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3469 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3470 criteria to be more general.
3472 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3473 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3474 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3475 host_all_ignored option.
3477 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3478 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3479 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3480 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3481 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3482 is what is supposed to happen).
3484 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3485 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3486 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3487 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3488 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3491 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3492 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3493 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3494 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3495 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3496 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3499 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3501 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3502 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3504 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3505 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3507 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3509 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3511 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3512 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3513 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3514 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3515 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3516 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3517 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3518 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3519 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3520 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3521 least in a lot of common cases.
3523 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3524 advertised in response to EHLO.
3530 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3531 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3533 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3534 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3536 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3537 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3538 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3540 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3541 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3542 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3543 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3544 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3550 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3551 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3554 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3555 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3556 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3558 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3559 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3560 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3561 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3562 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3563 rather than extend the field.
3569 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3570 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3571 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3572 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3575 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3576 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3577 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3579 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3580 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3581 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3583 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3584 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3585 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3588 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3589 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3590 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3591 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3592 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3593 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3594 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3595 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3596 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3597 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3598 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3600 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3603 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3604 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3605 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3606 ignores EPIPE as well.
3608 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3609 (quoted-printable decoding).
3611 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3612 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3614 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3616 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3618 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3620 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3621 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3623 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3626 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3627 miscellaneous code fixes
3629 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3632 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3633 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3634 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3635 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3636 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3637 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3638 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3639 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3641 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3642 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3643 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3644 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3646 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3647 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3648 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3649 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3650 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3651 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3652 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3653 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3654 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3656 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3659 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3660 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3661 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3662 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3663 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3664 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3665 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3666 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3668 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3669 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3672 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3673 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3674 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3675 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3676 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3677 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3678 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3679 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3680 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3681 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3682 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3683 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3684 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3686 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3687 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3688 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3689 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3690 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3691 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3692 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3694 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3695 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3696 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3697 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3698 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3699 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3700 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3701 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3702 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3703 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3705 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3706 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3707 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3708 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3709 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3711 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3712 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3713 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3714 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3715 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3716 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3717 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3719 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3720 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3721 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3722 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3723 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3724 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3727 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3728 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3729 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3732 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3733 if any retry times were supplied.
3735 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3736 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3737 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3739 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3741 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3743 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3744 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3745 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3746 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3747 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3748 before) are ignored.
3750 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3751 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3753 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3754 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3755 committing the later change.]
3757 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3758 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3759 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3760 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3761 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3762 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3763 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3764 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3765 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3767 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3768 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3769 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3770 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3771 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3772 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3773 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3774 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3775 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3777 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3778 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3779 hammering the server.
3781 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3782 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3784 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3786 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3787 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3788 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3790 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3791 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3792 one case where this was not true.
3794 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3795 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3796 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3797 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3800 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3801 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3802 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3803 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3804 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3805 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3806 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3807 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3808 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3811 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3812 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3813 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3814 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3816 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3817 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3819 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3820 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3821 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3823 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3825 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3827 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3829 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3830 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3831 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3832 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3834 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3835 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3837 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3838 be meaningful with "accept".
3840 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3841 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3843 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3844 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3845 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3847 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3848 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3849 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3850 there is data to show.
3851 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3853 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3854 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3855 as well as the number of messages.
3857 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3858 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3859 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3861 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3862 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3863 have a flag are now skipped.
3865 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3866 Added the -emptyok flag.
3868 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3869 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3871 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3872 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3873 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3875 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3878 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3879 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3881 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3883 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3884 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3886 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3888 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3889 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3890 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3891 contravention of the specifications.
3893 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3894 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3895 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3897 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3898 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3899 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3901 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3903 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3904 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3905 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3906 some point in the past.
3908 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3909 transport during callout processing was broken.
3911 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3912 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3914 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3915 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3917 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3918 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3920 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3926 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3927 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3929 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3930 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3931 there is data to show.
3932 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3934 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3935 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3937 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3938 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3940 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3941 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3943 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3944 submissions from trusted users.
3946 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3947 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3949 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3950 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3951 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3952 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3953 there is now a framework to start from.
3955 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3956 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3957 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3959 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3961 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3963 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3965 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3966 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3967 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3969 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3972 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3973 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3974 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3976 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3977 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3978 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3981 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3982 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3983 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3984 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3985 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3987 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3988 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3990 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3992 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3993 operations in malware.c.
3995 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3998 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3999 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4000 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4003 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4004 statements to "add_header".
4006 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4007 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4009 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4010 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4013 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4017 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4018 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4019 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4022 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4023 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4025 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4026 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4028 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4029 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4030 any possible encoding problems.
4032 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4033 but not after initializing Perl.
4035 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4036 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4037 apparently, which is not desirable.
4039 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4042 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4045 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4047 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4048 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4049 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4050 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4052 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4053 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4054 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4056 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4057 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4058 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4061 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4062 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4063 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4064 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4065 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4071 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4072 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4074 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4077 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4078 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4079 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4080 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4081 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4082 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4083 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4084 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4087 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4089 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4090 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4091 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4093 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4094 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4095 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4098 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4099 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4101 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4102 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4103 option (which defaults to 0600).
4105 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4107 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4108 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4109 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4110 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4111 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4112 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4113 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4115 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4121 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4122 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4123 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4124 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4125 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4126 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4129 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4130 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4132 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4134 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4135 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4136 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4137 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4138 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4141 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4142 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4144 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4145 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4146 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4147 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4148 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4150 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4151 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4152 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4153 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4155 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4156 be the same on different OS.
4158 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4161 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4162 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4164 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4167 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4168 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4169 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4170 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4171 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4172 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4175 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4176 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4177 when Exim was called.
4179 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4180 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4182 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4183 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4184 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4185 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4187 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4188 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4189 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4190 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4193 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4194 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4195 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4197 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4198 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4199 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4201 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4204 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4205 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4206 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4207 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4208 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4209 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4210 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4211 values from the SRV records were lost.
4213 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4214 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4215 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4217 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4218 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4219 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4221 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4222 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4223 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4224 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4225 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4226 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4227 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4228 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4229 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4230 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4232 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4233 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4234 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4236 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4237 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4239 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4240 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4241 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4242 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4245 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4246 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4247 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4249 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4250 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4251 PH/23 above applies.
4253 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4254 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4255 (for which there is an explicit test).
4257 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4259 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4260 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4261 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4262 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4263 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4265 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4266 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4267 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4268 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4270 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4271 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4272 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4274 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4276 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4278 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4279 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4280 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4282 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4283 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4284 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4285 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4286 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4288 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4289 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4290 the message gets confusing).
4292 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4293 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4294 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4295 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4297 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4298 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4299 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4300 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4303 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4304 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4305 the different processes.
4307 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4309 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4311 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4312 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4314 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4315 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4317 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4318 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4319 messages matching specified criteria.
4321 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4323 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4324 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4326 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4327 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4328 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4329 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4330 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4331 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4332 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4333 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4334 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4335 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4337 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4338 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4339 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4341 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4343 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4344 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4345 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4346 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4347 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4348 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4349 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4352 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4353 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4355 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4357 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4359 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4361 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4362 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4363 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4364 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4365 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4366 size of the count of files.
4368 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4370 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4373 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4374 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4375 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4376 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4378 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4379 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4380 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4382 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4383 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4384 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4385 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4386 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4388 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4389 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4391 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4392 will now be deprecated.
4394 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4396 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4397 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4398 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4400 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4401 with very large, slow to parse queues
4403 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4405 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4407 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4408 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4409 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4412 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4413 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4414 Sieve code now uses this.
4416 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4417 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4419 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4420 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4422 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4424 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4425 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4426 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4427 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4428 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4430 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4431 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4432 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4433 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4435 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4437 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4439 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4440 is preferred over IPv4.
4442 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4443 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4444 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4445 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4446 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4447 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4448 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4450 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4451 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4452 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4454 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4456 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4457 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4458 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4459 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4460 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4461 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4462 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4463 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4464 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4465 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4466 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4468 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4469 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4470 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4476 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4478 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4479 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4481 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4482 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4483 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4485 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4487 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4490 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4493 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4494 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4495 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4498 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4499 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4501 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4502 inside the third argument.
4504 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4505 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4508 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4509 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4511 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4512 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4514 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4516 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4517 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4520 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4522 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4523 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4524 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4525 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4526 identical. For example:
4528 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4530 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4531 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4532 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4534 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4535 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4536 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4537 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4539 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4540 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4541 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4544 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4546 o fixes some comments
4547 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4548 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4549 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4550 and documents the missing references header update
4554 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4555 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4558 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4559 Electronic Mail") by including:
4561 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4563 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4564 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4565 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4566 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4567 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4569 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4571 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4573 The auto-replied keyword:
4575 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4576 message by an automatic process,
4578 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4580 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4581 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4583 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4584 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4587 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4588 to the default Received: header definition.
4590 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4592 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4593 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4594 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4596 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4597 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4598 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4600 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4601 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4602 and treats the condition as false.
4604 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4606 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4607 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4608 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4609 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4610 not changing the active code.
4612 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4613 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4615 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4616 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4618 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4621 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4622 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4623 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4624 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4625 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4626 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4627 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4628 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4629 the text comparison.
4631 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4632 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4633 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4634 The same fix has been applied.
4640 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4641 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4644 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4645 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4647 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4649 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4650 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4651 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4652 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4653 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4655 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4656 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4657 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4658 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4661 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4669 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4670 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4672 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4674 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4676 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4677 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4678 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4680 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4681 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4682 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4684 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4685 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4688 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4689 ${stat: expansion item.
4691 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4692 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4694 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4695 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4698 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4700 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4703 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4704 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4706 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4708 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4709 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4710 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4711 the end of the subprocess.
4713 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4714 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4715 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4716 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4717 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4719 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4721 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4723 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4724 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4726 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4728 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4730 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4731 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4734 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4736 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4737 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4738 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4740 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4741 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4743 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4744 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4746 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4747 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4749 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4750 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4752 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4753 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4754 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4755 contributed by a Radius user.
4757 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4758 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4760 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4761 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4763 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4766 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4767 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4770 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4771 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4772 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4773 header lines when this was not necessary.
4775 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4777 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4778 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4779 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4782 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4785 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4786 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4787 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4788 return code was incorrect.
4790 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4792 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4794 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4796 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4798 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4799 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4800 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4801 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4802 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4805 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4807 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4808 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4809 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4810 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4811 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4812 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4813 which is clearly wrong.
4815 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4817 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4818 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4819 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4822 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4823 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4825 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4827 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4828 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4830 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4831 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4833 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4834 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4836 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4837 recipients, not senders.
4839 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4840 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4842 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4844 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4846 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4847 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4848 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4849 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4851 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4853 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4854 clock is set back in time.
4856 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4857 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4859 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4860 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4862 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4863 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4866 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4867 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4870 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4873 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4875 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4876 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4877 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4879 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4880 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4881 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4882 helo verification defer as a failure.
4884 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4885 actual error message.
4891 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4893 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4894 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4895 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4896 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4898 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4900 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4901 can still be requested.
4903 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4904 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4905 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4906 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4908 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4909 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4910 circumstances, but probably never did.
4912 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4913 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4914 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4917 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4919 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4920 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4922 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4924 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4926 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4927 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4928 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4929 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4930 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4931 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4933 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4934 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4935 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4936 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4937 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4938 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4940 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4941 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4943 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4944 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4946 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4947 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4949 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4951 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4953 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4955 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4957 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4959 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4961 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4963 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4964 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4965 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4967 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4968 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4969 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4970 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4972 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4973 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4974 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4976 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4977 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4978 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4979 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4981 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4982 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4985 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4986 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4987 should work with maildirs and everything.
4989 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4990 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4992 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4995 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4996 function for BDB 4.3.
4998 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5000 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5001 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5004 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5005 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5006 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5007 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5008 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5009 formatting function string_vformat().
5011 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5012 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5013 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5014 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5015 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5016 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5017 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5018 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5020 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5021 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5024 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5025 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5027 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5028 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5029 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5030 test. It is now used for both.
5032 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5033 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5034 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5035 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5036 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5037 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5039 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5040 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5041 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5044 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5045 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5046 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5048 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5049 experimental DomainKeys support:
5051 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5052 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5053 the control was given.
5055 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5057 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5059 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5061 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5062 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5063 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5066 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5067 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5068 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5069 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5070 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5071 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5074 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5075 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5076 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5077 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5078 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5079 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5081 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5082 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5083 do -d+all out of habit.
5085 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5086 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5089 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5090 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5091 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5092 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5093 record types that Exim uses.
5095 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5096 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5097 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5098 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5099 non-existent file that was broken.
5101 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5102 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5104 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5105 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5106 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5108 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5110 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5111 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5112 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5113 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5114 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5117 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5118 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5119 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5120 at a slight CPU cost.
5122 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5123 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5125 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5128 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5130 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5131 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5137 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5138 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5140 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5142 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5144 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5145 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5147 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5148 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5149 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5150 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5151 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5152 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5155 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5156 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5157 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5158 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5161 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5162 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5163 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5164 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5165 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5166 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5167 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5170 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5171 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5173 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5174 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5175 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5176 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5177 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5178 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5180 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5181 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5182 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5183 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5185 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5188 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5189 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5191 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5192 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5193 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5194 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5197 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5199 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5200 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5202 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5203 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5204 to what was transported.)
5206 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5208 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5209 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5210 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5211 spamd_address settings.
5213 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5214 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5215 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5216 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5217 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5219 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5221 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5222 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5223 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5224 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5225 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5227 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5228 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5230 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5231 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5232 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5233 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5234 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5235 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5236 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5239 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5240 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5241 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5242 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5243 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5244 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5245 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5248 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5250 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5251 driver and ACL definitions.
5253 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5254 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5256 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5257 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5258 understands it better than I do:
5260 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5261 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5263 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5264 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5265 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5266 => three warnings about OTP not working
5267 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5269 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5270 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5271 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5272 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5274 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5275 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5277 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5278 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5279 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5281 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5282 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5285 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5286 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5289 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5290 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5291 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5293 warn !verify = sender
5294 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5296 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5297 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5299 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5301 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5302 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5304 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5305 nomenclature these days.)
5307 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5308 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5310 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5311 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5312 . First host does not offer TLS;
5313 . First host accepts first address;
5314 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5315 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5316 . Second host accepts second address.
5317 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5318 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5321 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5322 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5323 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5324 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5325 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5327 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5328 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5330 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5331 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5333 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5334 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5335 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5337 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5338 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5341 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5343 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5344 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5345 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5346 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5347 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5348 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5349 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5351 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5352 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5353 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5354 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5355 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5357 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5358 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5361 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5362 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5363 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5364 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5365 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5366 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5368 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5370 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5371 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5372 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5373 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5374 printable escape sequences.
5376 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5377 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5380 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5381 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5384 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5385 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5386 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5387 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5388 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5390 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5391 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5392 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5394 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5396 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5397 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5400 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5401 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5402 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5403 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5404 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5405 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5406 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5407 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5408 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5411 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5412 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5413 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5414 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5418 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5419 ----------------------------------------
5421 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5422 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5423 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5424 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5425 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5426 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5429 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5430 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5431 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5432 historical information.
5438 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5440 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5441 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5443 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5444 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5447 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5448 filter fails to execute.
5450 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5451 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5452 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5453 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5454 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5456 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5458 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5459 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5460 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5461 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5463 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5464 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5465 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5466 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5467 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5469 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5471 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5473 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5474 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5475 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5476 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5478 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5479 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5480 sender verification.
5482 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5483 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5485 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5487 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5490 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5491 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5493 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5494 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5496 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5497 information about exactly what failed.
5499 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5501 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5502 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5503 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5505 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5506 It is now set to "smtps".
5508 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5509 ignore_target_hosts.
5511 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5512 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5513 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5514 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5517 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5518 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5519 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5521 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5522 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5523 wake it up if nothing else does.
5525 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5526 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5527 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5530 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5531 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5533 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5535 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5536 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5537 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5538 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5539 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5540 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5541 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5542 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5544 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5545 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5546 than one IP address.
5548 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5549 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5550 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5551 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5553 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5554 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5555 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5556 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5557 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5560 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5561 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5562 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5563 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5565 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5566 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5569 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5570 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5571 $sender_host_address.
5573 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5574 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5575 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5576 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5577 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5580 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5582 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5583 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5585 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5586 just the host names, not the priorities.
5588 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5589 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5590 controlled by a keyword.
5592 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5593 multiple records are returned.
5595 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5596 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5599 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5601 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5602 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5604 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5605 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5606 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5608 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5610 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5612 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5614 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5615 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5616 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5617 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5618 because the tests only now provoked it.
5620 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5621 (this can affect the format of dates).
5623 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5624 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5625 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5626 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5628 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5630 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5631 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5632 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5633 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5635 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5636 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5637 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5639 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5642 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5643 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5644 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5645 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5646 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5647 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5650 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5651 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5652 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5655 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5656 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5657 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5659 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5660 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5661 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5662 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5663 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5664 so I produce this patch..."
5666 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5667 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5670 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5671 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5672 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5673 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5676 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5678 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5679 long debug lines gets shown.
5681 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5682 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5684 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5686 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5687 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5688 of $primary_hostname.
5690 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5691 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5692 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5693 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5694 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5695 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5696 by change 4.50/55 above.
5698 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5699 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5700 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5701 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5702 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5703 running as the user.
5706 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5707 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5708 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5711 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5712 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5714 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5715 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5716 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5717 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5718 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5720 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5721 This has been fixed.
5723 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5724 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5725 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5726 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5729 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5731 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5732 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5733 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5734 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5736 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5737 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5739 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5740 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5741 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5743 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5744 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5745 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5748 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5749 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5750 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5752 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5753 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5754 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5755 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5757 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5758 during host lookups.
5760 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5761 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5763 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5765 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5766 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5767 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5768 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5769 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5772 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5773 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5775 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5776 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5777 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5779 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5781 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5782 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5783 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5784 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5785 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5786 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5789 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5790 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5791 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5792 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5793 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5795 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5798 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5800 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5801 "vacation" handling.
5803 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5804 OS variants using glibc.
5806 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5809 ----------------------------------------------------
5810 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5811 ----------------------------------------------------
5817 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5818 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5821 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5822 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5825 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5826 filter fails to execute.
5828 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5829 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5830 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5831 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5832 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5834 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5835 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5836 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5837 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5839 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5840 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5841 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5842 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5843 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5845 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5847 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5848 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5849 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5850 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5852 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5853 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5854 sender verification.
5856 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5857 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5859 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5860 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5862 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5863 ignore_target_hosts.
5865 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5866 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5867 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5868 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5871 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5872 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5873 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5875 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5876 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5877 wake it up if nothing else does.
5879 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5880 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5881 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5884 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5885 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5887 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5889 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5890 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5893 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5894 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5897 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5898 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5899 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5900 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5901 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5904 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5905 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5908 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5909 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5910 $sender_host_address.
5912 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5914 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5915 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5916 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5918 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5921 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5922 (this can affect the format of dates).
5924 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5925 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5926 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5927 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5929 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5930 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5931 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5933 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5934 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5935 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5936 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5938 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5939 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5940 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5942 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5945 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5946 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5947 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5948 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5949 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5950 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5953 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5954 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5955 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5956 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5959 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5960 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5961 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5962 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5963 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5964 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5965 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5967 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5968 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5969 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5970 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5971 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5972 running as the user.
5975 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5976 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5977 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5980 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5981 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5982 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5983 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5984 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5986 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5987 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5988 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5989 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5992 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5993 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5994 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5995 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5996 because the tests only now provoked it.
6002 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6003 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6004 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6005 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6006 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6007 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6008 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6010 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6011 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6014 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6016 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6018 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6019 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6022 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6023 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6024 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6025 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6026 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6028 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6029 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6031 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6033 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6035 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6038 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6039 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6041 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6042 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6043 affecting debugging statements).
6045 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6047 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6048 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6049 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6050 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6051 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6052 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6053 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6054 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6055 after the received time, and all would be well.
6057 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6058 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6059 condition in an expansion string.
6061 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6063 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6064 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6065 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6066 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6067 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6068 job under whatever limits there are.
6070 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6072 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6075 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6076 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6077 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6078 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6081 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6082 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6083 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6084 binary data in such strings.
6086 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6088 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6089 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6090 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6091 failure, which is pointless.
6093 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6095 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6097 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6098 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6099 Sender: header lines.
6101 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6102 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6103 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6105 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6106 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6107 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6108 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6109 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6112 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6113 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6114 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6115 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6116 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6118 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6119 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6120 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6123 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6124 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6126 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6127 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6129 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6131 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6133 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6135 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6138 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6140 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6142 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6143 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6144 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6145 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6147 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6148 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6154 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6155 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6156 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6158 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6159 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6160 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6161 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6162 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6163 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6165 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6166 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6167 verification failure".
6169 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6170 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6171 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6172 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6174 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6175 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6176 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6177 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6178 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6179 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6180 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6181 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6182 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6183 treated as a timeout.
6185 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6186 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6187 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6188 not set for Exim filters).
6190 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6191 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6192 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6194 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6196 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6197 try to make them clearer.
6199 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6200 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6202 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6204 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6206 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6207 only the Cygwin environment.
6209 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6210 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6211 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6212 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6213 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6215 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6216 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6217 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6218 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6219 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6220 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6221 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6223 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6224 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6226 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6228 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6229 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6230 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6232 To: susanne@some.where
6234 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6235 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6236 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6237 of addresses in From: header lines).
6239 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6240 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6241 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6243 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6244 treated as non-personal.
6246 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6247 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6249 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6251 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6253 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6254 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6255 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6257 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6258 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6260 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6261 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6262 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6263 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6264 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6265 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6267 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6268 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6269 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6270 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6271 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6272 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6273 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6274 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6276 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6278 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6279 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6281 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6282 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6283 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6285 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6286 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6288 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6289 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6290 rather than long int.
6292 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6294 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6300 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6301 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6302 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6303 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6304 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6305 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6311 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6312 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6314 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6315 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6316 socklen_t is defined.
6318 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6321 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6324 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6325 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6326 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6327 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6328 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6330 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6331 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6332 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6333 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6335 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6336 of flapping under certain conditions.
6338 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6339 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6340 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6342 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6344 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6346 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6347 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6348 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6349 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6351 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6352 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6353 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6354 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6355 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6356 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6357 preserved with the message after it was received.
6359 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6360 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6361 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6362 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6363 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6364 test suite worked just fine.
6366 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6367 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6368 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6370 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6371 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6374 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6375 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6376 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6377 does not fully solve it.
6379 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6380 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6381 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6382 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6383 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6385 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6386 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6387 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6389 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6390 string, for example:
6392 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6394 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6395 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6396 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6397 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6398 the routers could not see them.
6400 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6401 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6403 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6404 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6407 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6408 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6409 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6410 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6411 that needed quoting.
6413 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6414 was not being matched caselessly.
6416 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6419 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6420 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6421 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6422 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6423 when use_sender is false.
6425 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6427 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6429 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6431 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6432 the configuration file.
6434 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6435 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6437 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6439 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6440 bytes in the message body.
6442 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6443 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6446 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6448 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6450 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6451 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6452 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6453 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6460 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6461 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6463 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6464 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6465 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6466 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6467 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6469 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6470 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6472 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6473 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6474 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6476 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6477 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6478 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6480 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6483 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6484 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6485 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6486 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6487 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6488 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6489 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6495 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6496 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6497 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6498 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6499 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6500 default (and expected) setting.
6502 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6503 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6504 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6505 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6507 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6508 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6510 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6513 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6514 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6515 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6516 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6517 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6518 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6520 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6521 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6522 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6524 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6525 part (NOT match_host).
6527 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6529 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6530 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6531 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6532 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6533 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6534 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6535 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6536 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6537 the same named file.
6539 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6540 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6543 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6544 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6545 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6546 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6549 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6550 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6551 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6553 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6555 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6557 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6559 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6560 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6562 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6563 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6564 before starting the TLS session.
6566 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6568 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6569 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6571 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6572 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6573 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6574 colon in the middle).
6580 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6581 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6582 multiple configurations are in use.
6584 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6585 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6586 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6587 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6588 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6589 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6591 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6592 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6594 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6595 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6596 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6598 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6599 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6602 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6603 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6605 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6607 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6608 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6610 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6618 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6619 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6620 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6621 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6622 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6624 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6627 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6628 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6629 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6630 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6631 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6632 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6634 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6635 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6636 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6637 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6638 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6639 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6640 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6643 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6644 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6645 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6646 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6647 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6649 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6651 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6652 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6653 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6655 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6657 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6658 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6659 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6662 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6663 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6665 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6666 Three changes have been made:
6668 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6669 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6670 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6671 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6672 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6674 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6677 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6678 the modified behaviour.
6684 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6687 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6688 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6690 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6691 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6692 try to track down a specific problem.
6694 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6695 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6696 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6698 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6701 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6702 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6703 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6704 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6705 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6706 some earlier ones do not.
6708 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6710 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6711 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6712 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6713 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6714 address literals are enabled, of course).
6716 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6718 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6719 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6720 by a command such as
6724 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6726 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6728 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6729 remained set. It is now erased.
6731 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6732 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6734 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6735 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6736 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6737 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6738 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6739 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6740 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6741 appropriate error code.
6743 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6744 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6745 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6746 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6747 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6748 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6750 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6751 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6752 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6754 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6755 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6756 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6757 terminate the header.
6759 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6760 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6761 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6763 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6764 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6765 (4.30/29). In particular:
6767 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6770 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6771 to write a maildirsize file.
6773 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6774 the transport, the new value overrides.
6776 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6779 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6780 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6781 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6784 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6785 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6786 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6789 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6790 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6791 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6793 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6794 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6797 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6798 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6799 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6801 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6803 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6805 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6807 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6808 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6811 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6812 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6813 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6814 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6815 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6816 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6817 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6820 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6821 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6822 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6823 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6824 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6827 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6828 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6829 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6830 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6831 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6832 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6833 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6834 cached value only when the same options are set.
6836 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6838 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6839 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6840 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6841 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6842 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6844 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6845 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6846 it is clearly obsolete.
6848 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6851 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6852 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6853 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6856 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6857 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6858 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6859 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6860 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6862 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6863 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6864 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6865 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6867 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6869 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6871 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6872 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6875 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6876 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6877 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6878 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6879 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6880 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6883 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6884 with the -f command-line option.
6886 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6887 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6888 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6889 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6890 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6891 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6893 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6894 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6897 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6898 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6899 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6900 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6901 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6902 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6903 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6904 buffer is too small.
6906 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6907 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6909 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6910 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6911 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6912 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6913 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6914 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6915 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6916 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6917 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6919 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6920 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6921 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6923 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6924 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6927 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6928 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6929 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6930 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6931 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6933 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6934 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6935 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6936 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6939 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6941 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6943 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6944 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6946 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6947 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6948 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6950 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6951 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6952 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6953 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6954 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6956 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6957 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6958 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6959 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6960 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6961 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6962 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6964 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6965 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6966 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6967 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6968 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6969 the test of how many are available.
6971 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6972 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6973 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6974 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6975 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6976 new message is started.
6978 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6979 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6981 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6982 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6984 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6985 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6986 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6989 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6990 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6991 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6992 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6993 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6994 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6995 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6997 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6998 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6999 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7000 interpreted as octal.
7002 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7005 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7006 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7007 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7008 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7009 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7010 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7012 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7013 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7014 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7015 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7017 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7018 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7019 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7020 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7022 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7023 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7026 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7027 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7029 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7031 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7032 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7033 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7034 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7036 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7037 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7038 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7039 supplied", which is not helpful.
7041 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7042 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7043 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7045 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7046 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7047 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7048 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7049 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7050 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7051 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7052 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7054 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7055 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7056 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7057 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7058 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7060 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7061 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7062 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7063 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7064 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7065 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7067 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7068 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7069 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7071 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7073 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7074 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7075 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7078 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7080 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7081 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7082 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7083 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7084 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7085 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7086 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7087 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7089 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7090 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7091 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7092 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7093 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7095 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7098 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7099 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7100 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7101 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7102 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7103 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7104 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7105 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7106 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7112 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7113 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7114 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7116 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7119 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7120 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7121 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7123 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7124 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7125 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7126 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7127 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7128 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7130 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7131 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7132 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7133 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7134 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7135 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7136 the Exim test suite.
7138 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7139 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7140 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7141 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7143 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7144 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7145 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7146 specify it in this variable.
7148 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7149 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7150 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7151 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7153 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7154 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7155 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7156 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7158 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7159 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7160 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7161 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7162 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7164 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7166 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7169 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7170 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7171 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7172 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7173 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7175 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7176 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7178 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7179 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7180 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7181 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7182 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7184 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7185 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7187 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7188 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7189 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7191 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7192 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7194 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7195 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7197 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7198 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7199 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7201 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7202 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7204 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7205 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7206 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7207 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7209 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7211 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7212 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7213 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7214 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7216 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7218 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7219 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7221 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7223 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7224 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7225 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7226 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7227 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7228 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7230 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7232 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7233 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7236 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7238 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7239 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7241 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7242 550 Sender verify failed
7244 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7245 the final line of the response.
7247 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7248 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7249 all other user lookups.
7251 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7254 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7255 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7256 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7257 result into an int without checking.
7259 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7260 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7261 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7263 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7264 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7265 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7266 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7268 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7271 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7272 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7274 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7275 to the empty sender.
7277 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7278 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7279 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7280 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7281 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7282 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7283 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7286 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7287 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7288 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7289 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7292 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7293 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7295 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7298 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7299 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7301 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7303 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7304 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7307 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7308 as soon as it is encountered.
7310 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7312 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7315 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7316 recognizes a tab character.
7318 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7319 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7320 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7321 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7323 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7325 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7328 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7330 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7332 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7333 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7336 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7337 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7338 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7339 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7340 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7342 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7343 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7345 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7346 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7347 list (.included file names were always shown).
7349 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7350 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7351 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7354 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7355 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7357 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7359 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7361 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7363 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7364 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7365 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7366 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7367 failures to open the logs.
7369 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7370 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7371 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7372 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7373 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7374 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7375 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7381 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7382 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7383 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7386 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7387 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7388 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7390 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7391 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7392 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7394 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7395 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7396 causing some misleading effects.
7398 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7399 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7400 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7402 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7403 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7404 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7405 queue-runner function directly.
7411 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7414 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7415 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7416 was always written to the default place.
7418 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7419 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7420 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7422 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7424 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7426 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7427 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7428 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7430 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7431 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7434 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7435 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7436 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7438 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7439 command line option is disabled.
7441 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7442 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7444 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7446 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7448 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7449 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7451 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7453 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7454 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7455 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7456 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7457 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7458 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7460 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7461 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7464 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7465 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7467 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7468 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7470 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7471 received was valid base64.
7473 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7474 name of the variable that was being set.
7476 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7478 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7479 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7480 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7481 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7482 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7483 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7485 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7487 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7488 nor realm was specified.
7490 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7491 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7492 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7493 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7495 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7496 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7497 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7499 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7500 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7501 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7503 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7504 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7505 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7506 some systems use these upper case variants.
7508 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7509 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7510 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7511 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7513 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7515 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7516 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7518 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7519 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7522 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7524 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7525 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7526 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7527 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7529 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7532 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7533 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7534 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7536 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7537 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7539 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7540 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7541 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7542 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7544 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7545 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7546 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7548 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7550 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7551 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7552 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7553 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7556 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7557 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7558 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7560 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7562 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7563 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7565 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7566 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7568 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7569 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7570 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7571 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7572 when emails are that large.
7579 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7580 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7582 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7583 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7584 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7586 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7587 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7588 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7590 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7591 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7592 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7593 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7594 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7596 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7597 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7598 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7599 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7600 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7603 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7604 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7605 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7606 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7607 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7608 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7609 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7610 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7611 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7612 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7613 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7614 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7615 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7616 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7618 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7619 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7622 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7623 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7624 error should be diagnosed.
7626 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7627 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7628 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7629 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7630 appeared instead of "NULL".
7632 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7633 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7634 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7635 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7636 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7637 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7640 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7641 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7642 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7648 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7649 or receiver verification errors.
7651 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7654 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7655 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7656 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7657 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7659 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7660 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7661 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7662 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7663 shouldn't happen again.
7665 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7666 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7667 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7669 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7670 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7672 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7674 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7675 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7677 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7678 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7681 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7682 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7683 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7685 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7686 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7687 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7688 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7690 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7691 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7692 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7693 to define what should happen).
7695 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7696 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7697 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7699 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7701 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7703 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7704 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7706 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7707 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7708 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7709 structure in all cases.
7711 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7712 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7713 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7714 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7716 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7717 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7720 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7721 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7723 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7724 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7726 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7727 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7728 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7730 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7731 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7732 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7734 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7735 the book and for uniformity.
7737 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7739 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7740 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7741 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7742 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7743 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7744 non-existent command as the problem.
7746 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7747 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7748 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7750 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7752 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7753 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7754 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7756 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7757 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7758 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7759 timestamps using strftime().
7761 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7762 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7764 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7765 transport-time rewrites.
7767 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7768 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7769 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7770 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7772 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7773 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7775 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7776 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7777 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7778 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7781 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7782 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7783 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7784 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7785 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7786 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7787 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7789 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7790 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7791 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7792 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7793 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7795 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7796 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7797 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7798 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7799 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7800 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7801 remaining text gets split now.
7803 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7804 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7805 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7806 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7808 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7809 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7810 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7811 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7814 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7815 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7816 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7817 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7818 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7819 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7820 passed through if needed.
7822 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7823 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7824 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7825 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7826 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7827 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7829 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7830 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7831 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7832 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7833 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7835 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7836 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7837 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7838 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7839 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7841 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7842 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7845 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7846 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7847 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7848 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7849 mayhem of various kinds.
7851 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7852 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7853 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7854 the right test for positive values.
7856 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7857 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7858 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7859 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7860 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7861 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7862 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7863 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7864 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7865 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7868 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7871 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7872 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7875 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7876 the existing equality matching.
7878 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7879 dealing with inode numbers.
7881 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7882 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7883 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7885 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7886 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7887 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7888 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7891 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7892 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7893 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7894 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7895 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7896 relay addresses has also been removed.
7898 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7900 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7901 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7902 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7904 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7905 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7906 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7907 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7908 processing applies to CR:
7910 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7911 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7913 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7914 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7915 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7916 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7918 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7919 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7920 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7922 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7923 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7924 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7925 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7926 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7927 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7930 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7933 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7934 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7935 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7936 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7939 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7941 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7943 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7945 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7946 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7947 not considered personal.
7949 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7951 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7953 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7955 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7956 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7957 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7958 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7959 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7960 header lines, and spool format errors.
7962 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7963 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7964 for more flexibility.
7966 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7967 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7968 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7970 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7973 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7974 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7975 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7976 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7977 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7978 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7979 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7980 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7981 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7983 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7984 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7985 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7986 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7987 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7988 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7989 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7991 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7992 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7993 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7995 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7996 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7997 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7998 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7999 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8000 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8001 instead of killing the process with assert().
8003 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8004 than Unicode encoding.
8006 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8007 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8008 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8009 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8011 77. Added process_log_path.
8013 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8014 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8016 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8017 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8019 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8020 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8021 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8023 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8024 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8025 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8026 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8027 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8030 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8031 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8034 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8035 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8036 they will be used during message reception.
8042 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.