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.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
303 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
304 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
305 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
307 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
309 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
310 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
313 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
314 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
315 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
317 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
319 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
321 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
322 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
323 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
325 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
326 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
327 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
329 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
330 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
332 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
333 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
336 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
337 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
338 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
339 should both provide the file and set the option.
340 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
342 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
343 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
345 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
346 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
347 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
348 Authentication-Results: header.
350 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
351 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
352 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
353 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
355 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
356 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
357 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
358 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
359 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
360 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
361 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
363 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
364 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
365 copies while it is still usable.
367 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
368 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
369 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
371 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
372 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
374 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
375 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
376 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
377 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
379 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
380 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
381 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
384 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
385 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
386 - the pipe transport command
387 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
388 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
390 - paths used by single-key lookups
391 Previously this was permitted.
393 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
394 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
395 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
396 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
398 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
399 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
400 support larger malloc requests.
402 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
403 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
404 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
405 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
407 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
408 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
409 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
410 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
413 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
414 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
415 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
416 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
417 data being length-specified.
419 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
420 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
421 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
422 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
424 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
425 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
426 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
427 not being properly tracked.
429 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
430 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
431 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
432 minute could be seen.
434 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
435 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
436 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
438 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
439 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
441 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
442 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
445 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
447 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
448 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
450 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
451 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
452 filesystem as sufficient validation.
454 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
455 argument is supplied.
457 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
458 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
459 access under Exim's current working directory.
461 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
462 Previously no event was raised.
464 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
465 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
466 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
469 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
470 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
471 the size of the signature hash.
473 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
474 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
476 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
477 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
478 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
479 dropped between messages.
481 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
482 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
483 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
484 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
486 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
487 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
488 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
489 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
490 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
491 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
492 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
493 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
494 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
496 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
497 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
498 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
500 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
501 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
508 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
509 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
511 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
512 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
515 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
518 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
520 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
522 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
523 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
525 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
526 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
527 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
528 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
529 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
530 suitably configured).
532 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
533 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
535 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
536 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
539 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
540 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
542 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
543 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
544 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
545 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
548 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
549 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
550 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
552 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
555 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
556 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
558 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
559 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
560 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
561 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
564 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
565 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
566 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
567 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
570 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
571 shared (NFS) environment.
573 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
574 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
577 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
578 on some platforms for bit 31.
580 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
581 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
582 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
583 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
584 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
585 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
586 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
587 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
589 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
591 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
592 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
594 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
595 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
598 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
599 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
602 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
603 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
604 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
607 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
608 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
609 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
611 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
612 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
613 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
614 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
615 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
617 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
620 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
621 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
622 be requested on all coneections.
624 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
625 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
627 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
629 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
630 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
631 one for these; the option was ignored.
633 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
634 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
635 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
636 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
638 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
639 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
640 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
643 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
644 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
645 error ignored was made.
647 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
649 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
650 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
651 values, to catch one form of exploit.
653 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
654 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
655 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
657 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
658 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
661 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
662 them in our smtp response.
664 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
665 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
666 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
667 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
668 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
670 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
671 link count into consideration.
673 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
674 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
676 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
677 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
678 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
681 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
683 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
685 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
687 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
688 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
689 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
690 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
692 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
694 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
695 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
698 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
699 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
700 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
702 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
703 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
704 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
706 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
707 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
708 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
709 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
710 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
711 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
712 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
713 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
715 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
716 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
717 resulted in an indefinite loop.
719 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
720 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
721 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
727 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
728 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
730 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
731 non-signal-safe functions being used.
733 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
734 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
735 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
737 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
738 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
739 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
741 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
742 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
743 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
744 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
745 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
748 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
749 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
751 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
752 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
753 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
754 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
755 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
756 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
757 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
759 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
760 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
762 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
765 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
766 Previously this would segfault.
768 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
771 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
772 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
773 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
774 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
775 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
776 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
778 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
780 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
781 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
782 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
783 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
785 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
787 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
788 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
789 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
790 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
792 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
794 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
796 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
797 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
798 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
800 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
801 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
802 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
804 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
806 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
807 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
808 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
809 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
811 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
812 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
813 promised '?' replacement.
815 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
817 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
818 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
819 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
820 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
821 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
823 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
824 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
825 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
827 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
828 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
829 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
831 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
832 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
833 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
835 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
836 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
837 hope that is portable enough.
839 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
840 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
841 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
842 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
844 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
845 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
846 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
848 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
849 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
850 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
851 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
853 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
854 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
856 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
857 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
858 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
859 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
861 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
862 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
863 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
865 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
866 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
867 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
868 the previous G, M, k.
870 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
871 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
874 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
875 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
876 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
877 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
879 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
880 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
882 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
883 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
884 off past the nul-terimation.
886 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
887 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
888 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
889 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
890 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
892 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
894 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
895 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
896 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
899 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
900 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
902 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
903 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
904 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
906 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
907 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
908 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
910 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
911 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
917 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
918 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
919 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
920 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
921 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
922 be defined in redis_servers.
924 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
925 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
927 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
928 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
929 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
930 extant use locations.
932 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
933 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
935 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
936 Previously only the last row was returned.
938 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
939 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
940 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
941 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
944 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
945 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
946 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
947 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
948 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
949 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
950 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
951 Main pool for expansions.
952 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
953 active in the testsuite.
954 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
956 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
957 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
958 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
959 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
962 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
963 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
966 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
967 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
968 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
970 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
971 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
972 ClamAV interface method is removed.
974 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
975 rows affected is given instead).
977 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
978 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
980 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
981 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
982 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
983 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
984 for all multi-message initiating connections.
986 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
987 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
988 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
990 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
991 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
992 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
993 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
996 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
997 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
998 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1001 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1003 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1004 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1006 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1007 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1008 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1010 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1011 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1012 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1015 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1016 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1018 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1019 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1020 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1022 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1023 for the build is renamed.
1025 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1026 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1027 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1029 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1030 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1031 result replacing the original.
1033 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1034 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1035 and the resources needed to be freed.
1037 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1039 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1042 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1043 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1044 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1045 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1047 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1048 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1050 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1051 newer versions of the scanner.
1053 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1054 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1055 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1056 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1057 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1058 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1059 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1061 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1062 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1063 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1064 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1065 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1066 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1067 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1068 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1069 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1070 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1072 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1073 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1075 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1077 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1078 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1080 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1081 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1083 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1084 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1085 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1087 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1088 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1089 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1090 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1092 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1093 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1096 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1097 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1099 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1100 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1101 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1102 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1103 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1105 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1106 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1109 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1110 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1112 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1115 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1116 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1117 "bare" representation.
1119 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1120 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1121 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1122 corrupted the output.
1128 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1129 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1130 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1131 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1133 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1134 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1136 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1137 This permits better logging.
1139 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1140 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1141 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1142 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1143 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1144 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1146 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1147 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1150 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1151 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1152 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1154 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1155 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1157 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1158 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1159 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1160 client, there is no benefit for these.
1161 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1162 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1163 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1166 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1167 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1169 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1170 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1171 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1173 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1174 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1176 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1177 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1178 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1179 signature and again for transmission.
1181 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1182 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1183 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1185 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1186 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1187 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1188 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1189 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1190 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1191 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1193 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1194 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1195 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1196 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1198 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1199 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1200 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1201 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1202 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1203 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1206 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1207 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1208 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1209 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1212 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1213 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1214 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1215 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1218 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1219 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1222 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1223 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1224 banner-time rejection.
1226 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1229 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1230 is the name of a transport.
1233 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1235 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1236 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1238 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1239 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1240 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1243 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1244 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1245 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1246 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1248 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1249 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1250 initial verify call returned a defer.
1252 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1253 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1255 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1256 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1258 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1259 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1261 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1262 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1264 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1265 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1268 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1269 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1271 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1272 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1273 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1275 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1276 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1277 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1278 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1280 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1281 and confused the parent.
1283 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1284 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1286 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1289 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1290 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1291 out-of-order delivery.
1293 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1294 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1295 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1298 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1299 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1302 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1303 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1304 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1306 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1307 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1308 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1309 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1310 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1311 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1313 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1314 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1315 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1317 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1318 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1319 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1321 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1322 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1323 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1324 though a different problem.
1330 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1331 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1333 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1335 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1336 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1338 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1339 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1341 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1342 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1343 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1344 before acknowledging the chunk.
1346 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1347 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1348 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1350 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1351 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1352 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1355 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1356 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1357 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1359 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1360 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1362 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1363 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1364 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1365 body hash calculated value.
1367 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1368 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1369 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1371 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1373 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1374 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1376 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1377 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1378 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1380 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1381 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1382 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1383 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1384 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1385 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1387 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1388 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1389 past that check, despite the cost.
1391 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1392 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1393 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1395 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1396 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1397 TLS library to consume.
1399 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1401 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1403 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1404 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1405 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1406 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1407 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1408 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1409 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1411 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1413 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1415 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1416 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1417 should be warning-free.
1419 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1421 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1422 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1424 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1425 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1426 general solution here.
1428 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1429 already-broken messages in the queue.
1431 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1433 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1439 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1440 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1442 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1443 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1444 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1446 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1447 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1448 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1449 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1450 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1451 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1452 if one fails this test.
1453 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1454 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1456 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1457 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1459 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1460 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1462 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1463 in rewrites and routers.
1465 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1466 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1468 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1469 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1471 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1473 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1476 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1477 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1478 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1479 connection after a verify cache hit.
1480 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1482 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1483 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1485 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1486 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1487 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1488 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1489 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1491 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1492 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1494 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1495 Previously they were not counted.
1497 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1498 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1499 that needed the lookup.
1501 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1502 distinguished as "(=".
1504 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1505 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1507 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1509 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1510 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1512 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1513 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1515 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1516 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1519 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1520 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1521 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1522 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1524 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1526 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1527 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1528 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1530 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1531 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1532 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1535 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1536 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1537 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1540 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1541 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1542 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1544 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1545 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1548 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1550 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1551 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1553 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1554 are not in the system include path.
1556 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1557 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1558 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1559 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1561 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1562 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1563 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1565 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1567 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1568 an incoming connection.
1570 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1573 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1574 fallback to "prime256v1".
1576 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1577 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1583 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1584 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1585 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1586 client dropping the TLS connection.
1588 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1589 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1591 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1592 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1593 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1594 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1597 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1598 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1599 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1600 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1601 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1602 check on the next write.
1604 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1605 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1606 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1607 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1608 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1610 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1611 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1613 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1614 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1615 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1617 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1618 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1619 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1620 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1622 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1623 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1625 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1626 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1628 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1629 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1630 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1633 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1635 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1637 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1639 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1640 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1642 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1643 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1645 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1647 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1648 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1650 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1652 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1653 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1655 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1657 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1658 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1659 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1660 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1661 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1662 they will retry in-clear.
1663 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1664 at installation time.
1666 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1667 with the $config_file variable.
1669 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1670 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1671 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1672 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1673 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1675 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1676 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1677 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1678 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1679 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1681 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1683 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1684 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1685 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1686 list order is no longer honoured.
1688 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1689 for DKIM processing.
1691 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1692 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1694 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1695 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1696 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1697 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1699 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1700 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1702 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1703 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1705 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1706 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1708 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1710 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1711 cached by the daemon.
1713 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1714 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1716 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1717 keys are given for lookup.
1719 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1720 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1721 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1722 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1724 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1725 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1726 server-side so match that on older versions.
1728 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1729 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1730 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1732 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1733 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1735 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1736 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1737 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1738 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1739 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1740 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1741 initial truncated version.
1743 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1745 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1747 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1748 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1750 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1752 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1754 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1755 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1758 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1759 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1762 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1763 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1765 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1766 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1769 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1770 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1771 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1773 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1774 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1775 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1776 extraction. Accept either.
1782 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1785 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1787 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1790 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1791 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1792 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1793 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1795 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1796 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1797 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1799 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1800 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1801 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1804 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1807 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1808 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1809 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1810 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1811 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1813 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1814 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1815 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1817 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1819 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1820 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1822 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1823 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1825 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1828 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1829 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1831 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1832 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1833 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1835 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1836 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1837 specify a port-range.
1839 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1840 timeout value per server.
1842 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1843 now have the list separator specified.
1845 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1848 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1851 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1853 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1854 rather than the verbs used.
1856 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1857 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1859 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1861 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1862 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1864 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1865 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1867 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1868 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1870 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1872 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1874 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1875 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1876 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1877 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1879 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1881 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1882 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1884 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1885 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1887 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1889 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1891 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1893 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1894 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1896 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1897 added for tls authenticator.
1899 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1905 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1906 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1907 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1908 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1909 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1910 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1911 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1913 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1914 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1915 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1916 function when detected.
1918 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1919 cause callback expansion.
1921 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1922 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1923 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1924 instead of bool when processing it.
1926 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1927 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1929 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1931 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1933 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1935 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1936 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1938 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1939 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1940 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1941 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1942 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1943 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1945 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1946 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1949 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1950 version 3.3.6 or later.
1952 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1953 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1954 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1955 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1956 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1957 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1960 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1961 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1963 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1964 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1965 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1968 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1969 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1970 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1972 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1973 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1975 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1976 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1979 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1981 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1982 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1984 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1985 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1988 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1990 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1993 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1994 output list separator was used.
1999 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2000 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2003 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2004 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2006 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2008 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2009 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2015 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2017 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2018 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2019 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2020 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2021 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2022 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2024 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2025 utilities have not been installed.
2027 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2028 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2030 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2031 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2033 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2034 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2035 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2036 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2038 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2040 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2041 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2043 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2046 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2048 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2049 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2050 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2052 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2053 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2054 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2055 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2056 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2057 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2059 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2061 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2062 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2064 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2067 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2069 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2071 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2072 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2074 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2075 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2077 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2079 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2081 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2082 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2084 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2085 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2086 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2088 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2089 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2090 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2093 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2095 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2096 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2099 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2100 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2103 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2104 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2106 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2107 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2109 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2111 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2112 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2113 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2115 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2116 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2118 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2119 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2122 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2123 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2124 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2126 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2128 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2129 Christian Aistleitner.
2131 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2133 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2134 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2136 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2137 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2139 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2140 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2142 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2143 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2145 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2146 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2148 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2149 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2150 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2152 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2154 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2155 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2158 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2160 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2161 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2168 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2170 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2171 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2173 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2176 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2177 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2180 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2182 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2183 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2184 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2185 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2186 using channel bindings instead).
2188 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2189 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2190 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2191 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2192 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2195 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2197 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2199 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2200 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2202 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2203 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2204 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2206 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2208 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2210 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2211 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2213 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2215 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2217 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2219 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2220 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2222 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2224 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2225 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2228 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2229 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2231 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2232 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2235 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2237 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2239 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2240 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2242 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2245 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2246 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2248 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2249 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2251 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2253 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2255 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2258 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2261 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2263 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2264 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2265 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2266 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2268 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2270 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2271 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2272 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2273 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2276 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2277 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2278 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2280 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2281 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2282 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2283 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2285 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2286 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2287 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2288 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2289 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2290 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2291 delivery, as in LMTP.
2293 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2294 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2296 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2298 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2302 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2303 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2304 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2305 username as equal to the username.
2307 This change corrects that bug.
2309 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2310 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2311 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2313 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2315 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2316 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2317 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2318 NULL dereference and crash.
2320 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2322 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2323 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2324 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2326 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2328 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2329 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2330 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2331 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2332 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2333 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2334 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2335 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2336 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2337 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2338 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2340 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2341 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2343 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2344 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2347 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2348 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2349 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2350 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2351 an empty string is now equivalent.
2353 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2354 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2355 not performing validation itself.
2357 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2358 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2360 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2363 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2365 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2366 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2367 other false fix of the same issue.
2368 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2371 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2372 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2374 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2375 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2376 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2378 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2379 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2380 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2382 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2384 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2386 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2387 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2389 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2392 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2393 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2394 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2395 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2396 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2398 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2399 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2401 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2402 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2405 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2406 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2407 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2408 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2410 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2412 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2413 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2414 from multiple comments on this bug.
2416 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2418 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2419 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2422 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2423 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2425 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2426 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2432 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2434 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2440 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2441 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2442 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2444 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2446 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2449 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2451 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2453 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2455 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2456 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2458 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2459 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2461 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2462 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2464 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2465 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2466 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2468 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2470 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2471 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2473 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2475 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2477 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2478 non-compliant senders.
2479 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2481 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2482 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2483 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2485 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2486 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2487 in spool file corruption.
2489 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2490 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2491 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2494 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2495 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2496 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2498 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2499 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2501 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2503 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2505 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2507 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2508 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2509 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2511 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2512 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2513 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2514 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2516 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2517 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2519 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2520 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2521 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2522 resolver implementation change.
2524 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2525 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2527 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2529 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2531 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2532 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2534 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2535 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2537 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2538 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2540 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2541 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2542 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2543 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2544 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2546 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2548 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2549 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2550 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2552 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2554 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2555 read-only, out of scope).
2556 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2558 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2559 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2560 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2561 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2563 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2565 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2566 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2567 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2568 real issues in debug logging.
2570 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2571 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2573 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2574 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2575 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2577 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2578 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2579 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2582 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2583 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2585 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2586 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2587 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2588 needs to override this, it can.
2590 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2591 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2592 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2594 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2595 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2596 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2597 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2599 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2605 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2606 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2608 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2610 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2613 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2614 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2616 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2617 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2618 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2620 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2621 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2622 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2623 not safe for signals.
2625 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2626 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2627 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2628 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2631 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2633 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2634 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2635 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2636 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2637 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2639 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2640 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2641 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2642 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2643 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2644 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2646 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2647 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2648 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2649 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2651 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2652 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2653 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2654 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2656 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2657 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2658 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2659 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2660 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2661 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2662 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2663 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2664 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2666 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2667 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2668 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2669 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2671 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2672 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2673 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2674 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2675 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2676 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2677 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2678 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2679 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2680 details in the main documentation.
2682 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2684 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2686 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2687 repository when doing development or release builds.
2689 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2690 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2692 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2693 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2696 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2698 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2699 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2701 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2702 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2704 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2705 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2707 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2708 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2710 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2711 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2713 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2715 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2718 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2719 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2720 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2722 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2724 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2726 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2727 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2733 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2735 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2736 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2738 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2740 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2742 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2745 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2746 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2748 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2749 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2751 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2752 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2754 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2757 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2758 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2760 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2761 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2762 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2763 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2765 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2766 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2772 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2775 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2776 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2777 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2779 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2780 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2782 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2783 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2784 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2786 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2787 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2789 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2790 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2792 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2793 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2795 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2796 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2798 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2799 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2801 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2804 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2805 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2807 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2808 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2810 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2811 SQL string expansion failure details.
2812 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2814 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2815 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2817 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2818 extern declarations in function scope.
2819 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2821 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2822 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2823 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2826 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2827 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2829 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2830 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2832 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2833 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2835 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2836 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2838 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2839 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2842 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2844 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2846 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2847 Patch by Simon Arlott
2849 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2850 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2856 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2857 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2859 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2860 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2862 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2864 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2865 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2866 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2868 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2869 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2870 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2872 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2873 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2874 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2875 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2877 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2878 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2879 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2880 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2882 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2883 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2884 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2887 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2890 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2891 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2892 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2893 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2894 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2900 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2901 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2902 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2904 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2905 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2907 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2909 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2911 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2913 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2915 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2917 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2918 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2919 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2920 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2922 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2923 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2924 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2925 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2926 more caution in buffer sizes.
2928 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2930 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2932 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2934 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2936 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2938 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2940 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2942 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2943 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2944 ignore trailing whitespace.
2946 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2948 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2951 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2952 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2954 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2955 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2956 Notification from John Horne.
2958 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2961 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2962 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2965 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2968 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2969 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2970 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2972 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2973 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2974 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2977 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2978 option (effectively making it always true).
2980 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2981 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2983 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2984 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2986 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2987 run-time user, instead of root.
2989 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2990 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2992 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2993 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2996 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2997 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2998 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3000 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3002 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3008 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3009 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3012 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3013 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3016 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3017 Patch from Alain Williams
3019 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3021 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3022 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3024 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3025 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3027 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3029 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3031 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3032 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3034 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3036 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3038 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3039 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3040 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3042 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3043 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3045 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3046 Patch by Simon Arlott
3048 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3049 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3055 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3057 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3059 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3061 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3063 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3069 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3070 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3072 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3073 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3076 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3077 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3078 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3080 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3081 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3083 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3084 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3085 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3086 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3088 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3089 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3090 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3092 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3094 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3096 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3097 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3099 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3101 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3102 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3103 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3104 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3106 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3107 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3109 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3111 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3113 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3114 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3116 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3117 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3119 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3120 that they are available at delivery time.
3122 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3124 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3125 incoming_port log selectors.
3127 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3128 setting expands to an empty string.
3130 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3131 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3133 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3134 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3136 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3137 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3139 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3140 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3142 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3143 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3145 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3146 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3148 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3150 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3151 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3153 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3154 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3156 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3158 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3159 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3161 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3163 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3165 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3168 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3169 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3171 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3172 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3174 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3175 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3177 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3178 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3180 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3181 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3183 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3184 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3186 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3187 plus update to original patch.
3189 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3191 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3192 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3194 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3196 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3198 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3200 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3202 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3203 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3205 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3206 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3208 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3209 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3211 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3212 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3214 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3216 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3218 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3220 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3226 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3227 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3228 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3230 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3231 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3232 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3233 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3234 build errors in sieve.c.
3236 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3237 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3238 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3240 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3242 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3244 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3246 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3252 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3254 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3255 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3256 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3257 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3258 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3259 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3260 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3261 for iplsearch lookups.
3263 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3264 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3265 previously such lookups could never work.
3267 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3268 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3269 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3271 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3274 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3275 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3276 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3277 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3278 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3279 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3281 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3282 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3284 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3285 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3286 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3287 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3288 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3289 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3291 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3294 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3296 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3297 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3300 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3301 by clients under certain conditions.
3303 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3304 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3306 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3308 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3309 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3311 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3313 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3315 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3317 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3318 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3320 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3322 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3323 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3325 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3327 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3329 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3330 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3331 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3332 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3334 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3335 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3336 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3338 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3339 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3341 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3343 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3345 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3347 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3348 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3349 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3355 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3356 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3359 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3360 issue a MAIL command.
3362 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3364 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3366 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3367 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3368 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3369 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3370 item. This has been fixed.
3372 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3373 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3375 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3376 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3378 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3379 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3380 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3382 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3384 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3385 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3386 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3387 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3388 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3390 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3391 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3392 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3394 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3395 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3396 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3397 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3399 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3401 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3403 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3404 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3405 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3406 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3407 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3409 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3411 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3412 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3413 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3416 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3418 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3420 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3422 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3424 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3426 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3427 no_callout_flush is set.
3429 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3430 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3431 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3434 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3436 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3437 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3438 other ACL rejections are.
3440 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3441 with slight modification.
3443 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3444 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3446 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3447 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3450 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3451 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3453 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3455 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3456 expansion side effects.
3458 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3459 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3460 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3463 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3464 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3465 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3467 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3468 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3469 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3470 were accidentally chopped off.
3472 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3473 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3474 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3475 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3476 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3477 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3478 pipelining has not been advertised.
3480 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3482 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3483 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3484 This has been fixed.
3486 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3487 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3488 reported on Solaris.
3490 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3491 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3492 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3493 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3494 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3495 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3496 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3498 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3501 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3503 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3505 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3506 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3507 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3508 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3509 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3510 criteria to be more general.
3512 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3513 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3514 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3515 host_all_ignored option.
3517 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3518 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3519 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3520 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3521 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3522 is what is supposed to happen).
3524 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3525 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3526 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3527 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3528 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3531 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3532 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3533 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3534 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3535 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3536 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3539 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3541 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3542 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3544 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3545 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3547 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3549 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3551 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3552 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3553 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3554 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3555 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3556 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3557 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3558 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3559 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3560 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3561 least in a lot of common cases.
3563 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3564 advertised in response to EHLO.
3570 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3571 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3573 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3574 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3576 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3577 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3578 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3580 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3581 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3582 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3583 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3584 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3590 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3591 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3594 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3595 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3596 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3598 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3599 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3600 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3601 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3602 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3603 rather than extend the field.
3609 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3610 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3611 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3612 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3615 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3616 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3617 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3619 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3620 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3621 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3623 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3624 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3625 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3628 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3629 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3630 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3631 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3632 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3633 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3634 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3635 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3636 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3637 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3638 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3640 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3643 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3644 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3645 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3646 ignores EPIPE as well.
3648 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3649 (quoted-printable decoding).
3651 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3652 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3654 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3656 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3658 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3660 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3661 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3663 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3666 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3667 miscellaneous code fixes
3669 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3672 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3673 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3674 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3675 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3676 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3677 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3678 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3679 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3681 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3682 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3683 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3684 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3686 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3687 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3688 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3689 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3690 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3691 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3692 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3693 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3694 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3696 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3699 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3700 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3701 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3702 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3703 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3704 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3705 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3706 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3708 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3709 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3712 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3713 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3714 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3715 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3716 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3717 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3718 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3719 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3720 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3721 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3722 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3723 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3724 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3726 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3727 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3728 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3729 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3730 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3731 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3732 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3734 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3735 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3736 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3737 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3738 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3739 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3740 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3741 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3742 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3743 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3745 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3746 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3747 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3748 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3749 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3751 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3752 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3753 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3754 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3755 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3756 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3757 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3759 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3760 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3761 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3762 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3763 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3764 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3767 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3768 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3769 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3772 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3773 if any retry times were supplied.
3775 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3776 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3777 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3779 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3781 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3783 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3784 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3785 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3786 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3787 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3788 before) are ignored.
3790 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3791 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3793 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3794 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3795 committing the later change.]
3797 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3798 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3799 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3800 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3801 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3802 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3803 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3804 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3805 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3807 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3808 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3809 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3810 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3811 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3812 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3813 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3814 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3815 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3817 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3818 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3819 hammering the server.
3821 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3822 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3824 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3826 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3827 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3828 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3830 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3831 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3832 one case where this was not true.
3834 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3835 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3836 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3837 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3840 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3841 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3842 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3843 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3844 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3845 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3846 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3847 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3848 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3851 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3852 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3853 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3854 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3856 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3857 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3859 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3860 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3861 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3863 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3865 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3867 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3869 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3870 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3871 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3872 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3874 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3875 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3877 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3878 be meaningful with "accept".
3880 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3881 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3883 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3884 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3885 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3887 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3888 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3889 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3890 there is data to show.
3891 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3893 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3894 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3895 as well as the number of messages.
3897 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3898 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3899 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3901 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3902 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3903 have a flag are now skipped.
3905 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3906 Added the -emptyok flag.
3908 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3909 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3911 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3912 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3913 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3915 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3918 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3919 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3921 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3923 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3924 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3926 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3928 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3929 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3930 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3931 contravention of the specifications.
3933 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3934 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3935 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3937 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3938 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3939 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3941 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3943 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3944 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3945 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3946 some point in the past.
3948 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3949 transport during callout processing was broken.
3951 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3952 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3954 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3955 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3957 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3958 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3960 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3966 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3967 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3969 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3970 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3971 there is data to show.
3972 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3974 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3975 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3977 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3978 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3980 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3981 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3983 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3984 submissions from trusted users.
3986 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3987 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3989 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3990 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3991 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3992 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3993 there is now a framework to start from.
3995 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3996 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3997 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3999 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4001 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4003 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4005 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4006 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4007 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4009 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4012 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4013 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4014 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4016 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4017 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4018 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4021 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4022 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4023 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4024 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4025 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4027 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4028 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4030 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4032 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4033 operations in malware.c.
4035 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4038 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4039 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4040 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4043 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4044 statements to "add_header".
4046 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4047 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4049 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4050 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4053 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4057 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4058 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4059 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4062 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4063 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4065 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4066 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4068 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4069 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4070 any possible encoding problems.
4072 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4073 but not after initializing Perl.
4075 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4076 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4077 apparently, which is not desirable.
4079 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4082 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4085 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4087 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4088 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4089 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4090 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4092 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4093 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4094 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4096 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4097 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4098 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4101 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4102 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4103 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4104 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4105 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4111 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4112 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4114 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4117 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4118 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4119 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4120 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4121 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4122 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4123 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4124 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4127 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4129 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4130 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4131 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4133 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4134 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4135 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4138 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4139 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4141 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4142 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4143 option (which defaults to 0600).
4145 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4147 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4148 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4149 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4150 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4151 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4152 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4153 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4155 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4161 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4162 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4163 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4164 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4165 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4166 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4169 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4170 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4172 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4174 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4175 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4176 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4177 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4178 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4181 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4182 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4184 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4185 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4186 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4187 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4188 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4190 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4191 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4192 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4193 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4195 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4196 be the same on different OS.
4198 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4201 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4202 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4204 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4207 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4208 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4209 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4210 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4211 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4212 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4215 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4216 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4217 when Exim was called.
4219 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4220 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4222 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4223 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4224 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4225 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4227 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4228 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4229 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4230 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4233 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4234 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4235 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4237 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4238 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4239 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4241 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4244 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4245 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4246 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4247 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4248 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4249 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4250 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4251 values from the SRV records were lost.
4253 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4254 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4255 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4257 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4258 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4259 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4261 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4262 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4263 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4264 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4265 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4266 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4267 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4268 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4269 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4270 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4272 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4273 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4274 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4276 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4277 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4279 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4280 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4281 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4282 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4285 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4286 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4287 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4289 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4290 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4291 PH/23 above applies.
4293 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4294 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4295 (for which there is an explicit test).
4297 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4299 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4300 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4301 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4302 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4303 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4305 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4306 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4307 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4308 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4310 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4311 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4312 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4314 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4316 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4318 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4319 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4320 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4322 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4323 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4324 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4325 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4326 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4328 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4329 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4330 the message gets confusing).
4332 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4333 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4334 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4335 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4337 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4338 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4339 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4340 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4343 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4344 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4345 the different processes.
4347 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4349 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4351 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4352 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4354 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4355 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4357 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4358 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4359 messages matching specified criteria.
4361 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4363 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4364 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4366 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4367 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4368 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4369 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4370 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4371 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4372 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4373 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4374 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4375 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4377 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4378 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4379 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4381 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4383 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4384 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4385 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4386 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4387 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4388 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4389 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4392 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4393 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4395 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4397 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4399 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4401 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4402 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4403 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4404 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4405 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4406 size of the count of files.
4408 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4410 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4413 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4414 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4415 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4416 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4418 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4419 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4420 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4422 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4423 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4424 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4425 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4426 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4428 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4429 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4431 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4432 will now be deprecated.
4434 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4436 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4437 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4438 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4440 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4441 with very large, slow to parse queues
4443 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4445 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4447 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4448 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4449 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4452 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4453 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4454 Sieve code now uses this.
4456 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4457 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4459 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4460 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4462 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4464 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4465 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4466 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4467 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4468 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4470 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4471 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4472 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4473 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4475 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4477 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4479 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4480 is preferred over IPv4.
4482 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4483 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4484 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4485 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4486 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4487 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4488 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4490 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4491 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4492 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4494 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4496 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4497 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4498 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4499 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4500 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4501 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4502 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4503 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4504 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4505 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4506 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4508 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4509 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4510 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4516 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4518 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4519 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4521 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4522 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4523 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4525 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4527 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4530 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4533 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4534 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4535 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4538 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4539 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4541 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4542 inside the third argument.
4544 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4545 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4548 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4549 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4551 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4552 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4554 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4556 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4557 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4560 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4562 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4563 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4564 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4565 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4566 identical. For example:
4568 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4570 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4571 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4572 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4574 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4575 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4576 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4577 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4579 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4580 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4581 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4584 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4586 o fixes some comments
4587 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4588 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4589 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4590 and documents the missing references header update
4594 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4595 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4598 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4599 Electronic Mail") by including:
4601 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4603 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4604 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4605 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4606 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4607 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4609 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4611 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4613 The auto-replied keyword:
4615 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4616 message by an automatic process,
4618 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4620 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4621 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4623 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4624 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4627 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4628 to the default Received: header definition.
4630 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4632 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4633 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4634 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4636 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4637 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4638 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4640 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4641 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4642 and treats the condition as false.
4644 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4646 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4647 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4648 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4649 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4650 not changing the active code.
4652 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4653 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4655 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4656 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4658 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4661 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4662 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4663 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4664 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4665 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4666 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4667 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4668 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4669 the text comparison.
4671 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4672 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4673 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4674 The same fix has been applied.
4680 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4681 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4684 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4685 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4687 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4689 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4690 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4691 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4692 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4693 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4695 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4696 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4697 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4698 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4701 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4709 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4710 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4712 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4714 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4716 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4717 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4718 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4720 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4721 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4722 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4724 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4725 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4728 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4729 ${stat: expansion item.
4731 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4732 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4734 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4735 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4738 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4740 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4743 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4744 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4746 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4748 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4749 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4750 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4751 the end of the subprocess.
4753 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4754 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4755 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4756 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4757 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4759 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4761 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4763 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4764 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4766 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4768 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4770 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4771 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4774 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4776 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4777 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4778 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4780 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4781 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4783 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4784 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4786 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4787 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4789 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4790 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4792 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4793 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4794 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4795 contributed by a Radius user.
4797 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4798 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4800 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4801 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4803 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4806 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4807 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4810 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4811 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4812 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4813 header lines when this was not necessary.
4815 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4817 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4818 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4819 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4822 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4825 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4826 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4827 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4828 return code was incorrect.
4830 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4832 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4834 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4836 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4838 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4839 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4840 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4841 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4842 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4845 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4847 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4848 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4849 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4850 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4851 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4852 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4853 which is clearly wrong.
4855 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4857 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4858 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4859 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4862 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4863 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4865 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4867 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4868 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4870 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4871 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4873 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4874 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4876 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4877 recipients, not senders.
4879 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4880 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4882 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4884 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4886 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4887 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4888 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4889 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4891 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4893 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4894 clock is set back in time.
4896 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4897 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4899 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4900 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4902 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4903 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4906 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4907 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4910 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4913 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4915 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4916 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4917 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4919 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4920 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4921 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4922 helo verification defer as a failure.
4924 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4925 actual error message.
4931 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4933 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4934 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4935 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4936 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4938 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4940 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4941 can still be requested.
4943 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4944 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4945 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4946 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4948 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4949 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4950 circumstances, but probably never did.
4952 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4953 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4954 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4957 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4959 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4960 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4962 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4964 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4966 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4967 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4968 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4969 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4970 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4971 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4973 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4974 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4975 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4976 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4977 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4978 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4980 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4981 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4983 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4984 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4986 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4987 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4989 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4991 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4993 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4995 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4997 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4999 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5001 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5003 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5004 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5005 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5007 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5008 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5009 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5010 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5012 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5013 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5014 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5016 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5017 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5018 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5019 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5021 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5022 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5025 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5026 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5027 should work with maildirs and everything.
5029 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5030 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5032 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5035 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5036 function for BDB 4.3.
5038 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5040 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5041 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5044 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5045 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5046 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5047 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5048 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5049 formatting function string_vformat().
5051 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5052 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5053 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5054 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5055 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5056 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5057 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5058 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5060 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5061 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5064 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5065 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5067 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5068 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5069 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5070 test. It is now used for both.
5072 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5073 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5074 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5075 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5076 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5077 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5079 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5080 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5081 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5084 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5085 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5086 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5088 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5089 experimental DomainKeys support:
5091 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5092 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5093 the control was given.
5095 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5097 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5099 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5101 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5102 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5103 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5106 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5107 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5108 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5109 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5110 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5111 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5114 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5115 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5116 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5117 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5118 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5119 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5121 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5122 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5123 do -d+all out of habit.
5125 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5126 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5129 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5130 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5131 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5132 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5133 record types that Exim uses.
5135 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5136 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5137 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5138 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5139 non-existent file that was broken.
5141 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5142 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5144 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5145 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5146 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5148 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5150 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5151 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5152 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5153 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5154 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5157 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5158 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5159 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5160 at a slight CPU cost.
5162 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5163 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5165 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5168 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5170 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5171 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5177 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5178 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5180 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5182 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5184 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5185 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5187 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5188 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5189 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5190 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5191 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5192 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5195 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5196 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5197 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5198 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5201 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5202 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5203 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5204 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5205 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5206 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5207 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5210 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5211 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5213 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5214 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5215 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5216 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5217 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5218 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5220 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5221 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5222 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5223 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5225 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5228 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5229 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5231 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5232 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5233 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5234 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5237 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5239 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5240 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5242 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5243 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5244 to what was transported.)
5246 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5248 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5249 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5250 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5251 spamd_address settings.
5253 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5254 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5255 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5256 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5257 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5259 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5261 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5262 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5263 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5264 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5265 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5267 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5268 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5270 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5271 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5272 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5273 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5274 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5275 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5276 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5279 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5280 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5281 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5282 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5283 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5284 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5285 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5288 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5290 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5291 driver and ACL definitions.
5293 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5294 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5296 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5297 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5298 understands it better than I do:
5300 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5301 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5303 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5304 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5305 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5306 => three warnings about OTP not working
5307 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5309 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5310 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5311 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5312 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5314 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5315 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5317 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5318 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5319 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5321 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5322 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5325 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5326 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5329 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5330 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5331 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5333 warn !verify = sender
5334 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5336 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5337 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5339 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5341 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5342 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5344 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5345 nomenclature these days.)
5347 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5348 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5350 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5351 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5352 . First host does not offer TLS;
5353 . First host accepts first address;
5354 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5355 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5356 . Second host accepts second address.
5357 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5358 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5361 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5362 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5363 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5364 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5365 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5367 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5368 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5370 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5371 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5373 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5374 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5375 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5377 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5378 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5381 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5383 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5384 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5385 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5386 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5387 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5388 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5389 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5391 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5392 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5393 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5394 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5395 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5397 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5398 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5401 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5402 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5403 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5404 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5405 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5406 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5408 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5410 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5411 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5412 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5413 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5414 printable escape sequences.
5416 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5417 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5420 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5421 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5424 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5425 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5426 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5427 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5428 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5430 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5431 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5432 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5434 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5436 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5437 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5440 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5441 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5442 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5443 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5444 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5445 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5446 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5447 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5448 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5451 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5452 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5453 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5454 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5458 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5459 ----------------------------------------
5461 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5462 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5463 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5464 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5465 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5466 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5469 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5470 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5471 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5472 historical information.
5478 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5480 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5481 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5483 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5484 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5487 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5488 filter fails to execute.
5490 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5491 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5492 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5493 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5494 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5496 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5498 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5499 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5500 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5501 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5503 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5504 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5505 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5506 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5507 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5509 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5511 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5513 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5514 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5515 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5516 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5518 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5519 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5520 sender verification.
5522 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5523 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5525 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5527 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5530 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5531 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5533 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5534 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5536 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5537 information about exactly what failed.
5539 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5541 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5542 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5543 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5545 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5546 It is now set to "smtps".
5548 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5549 ignore_target_hosts.
5551 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5552 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5553 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5554 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5557 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5558 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5559 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5561 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5562 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5563 wake it up if nothing else does.
5565 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5566 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5567 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5570 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5571 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5573 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5575 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5576 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5577 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5578 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5579 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5580 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5581 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5582 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5584 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5585 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5586 than one IP address.
5588 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5589 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5590 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5591 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5593 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5594 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5595 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5596 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5597 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5600 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5601 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5602 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5603 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5605 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5606 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5609 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5610 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5611 $sender_host_address.
5613 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5614 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5615 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5616 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5617 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5620 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5622 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5623 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5625 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5626 just the host names, not the priorities.
5628 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5629 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5630 controlled by a keyword.
5632 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5633 multiple records are returned.
5635 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5636 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5639 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5641 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5642 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5644 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5645 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5646 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5648 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5650 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5652 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5654 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5655 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5656 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5657 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5658 because the tests only now provoked it.
5660 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5661 (this can affect the format of dates).
5663 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5664 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5665 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5666 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5668 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5670 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5671 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5672 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5673 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5675 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5676 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5677 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5679 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5682 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5683 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5684 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5685 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5686 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5687 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5690 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5691 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5692 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5695 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5696 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5697 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5699 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5700 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5701 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5702 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5703 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5704 so I produce this patch..."
5706 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5707 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5710 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5711 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5712 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5713 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5716 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5718 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5719 long debug lines gets shown.
5721 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5722 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5724 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5726 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5727 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5728 of $primary_hostname.
5730 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5731 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5732 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5733 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5734 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5735 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5736 by change 4.50/55 above.
5738 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5739 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5740 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5741 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5742 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5743 running as the user.
5746 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5747 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5748 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5751 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5752 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5754 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5755 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5756 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5757 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5758 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5760 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5761 This has been fixed.
5763 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5764 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5765 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5766 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5769 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5771 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5772 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5773 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5774 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5776 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5777 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5779 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5780 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5781 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5783 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5784 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5785 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5788 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5789 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5790 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5792 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5793 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5794 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5795 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5797 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5798 during host lookups.
5800 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5801 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5803 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5805 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5806 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5807 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5808 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5809 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5812 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5813 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5815 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5816 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5817 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5819 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5821 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5822 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5823 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5824 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5825 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5826 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5829 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5830 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5831 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5832 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5833 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5835 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5838 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5840 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5841 "vacation" handling.
5843 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5844 OS variants using glibc.
5846 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5849 ----------------------------------------------------
5850 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5851 ----------------------------------------------------
5857 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5858 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5861 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5862 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5865 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5866 filter fails to execute.
5868 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5869 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5870 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5871 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5872 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5874 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5875 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5876 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5877 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5879 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5880 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5881 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5882 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5883 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5885 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5887 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5888 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5889 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5890 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5892 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5893 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5894 sender verification.
5896 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5897 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5899 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5900 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5902 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5903 ignore_target_hosts.
5905 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5906 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5907 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5908 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5911 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5912 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5913 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5915 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5916 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5917 wake it up if nothing else does.
5919 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5920 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5921 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5924 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5925 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5927 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5929 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5930 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5933 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5934 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5937 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5938 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5939 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5940 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5941 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5944 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5945 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5948 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5949 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5950 $sender_host_address.
5952 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5954 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5955 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5956 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5958 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5961 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5962 (this can affect the format of dates).
5964 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5965 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5966 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5967 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5969 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5970 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5971 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5973 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5974 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5975 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5976 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5978 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5979 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5980 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5982 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5985 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5986 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5987 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5988 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5989 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5990 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5993 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5994 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5995 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5996 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5999 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6000 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6001 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6002 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6003 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6004 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6005 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6007 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6008 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6009 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6010 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6011 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6012 running as the user.
6015 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6016 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6017 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6020 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6021 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6022 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6023 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6024 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6026 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6027 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6028 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6029 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6032 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6033 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6034 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6035 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6036 because the tests only now provoked it.
6042 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6043 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6044 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6045 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6046 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6047 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6048 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6050 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6051 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6054 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6056 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6058 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6059 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6062 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6063 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6064 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6065 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6066 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6068 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6069 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6071 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6073 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6075 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6078 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6079 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6081 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6082 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6083 affecting debugging statements).
6085 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6087 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6088 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6089 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6090 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6091 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6092 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6093 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6094 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6095 after the received time, and all would be well.
6097 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6098 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6099 condition in an expansion string.
6101 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6103 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6104 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6105 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6106 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6107 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6108 job under whatever limits there are.
6110 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6112 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6115 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6116 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6117 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6118 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6121 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6122 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6123 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6124 binary data in such strings.
6126 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6128 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6129 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6130 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6131 failure, which is pointless.
6133 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6135 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6137 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6138 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6139 Sender: header lines.
6141 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6142 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6143 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6145 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6146 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6147 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6148 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6149 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6152 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6153 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6154 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6155 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6156 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6158 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6159 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6160 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6163 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6164 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6166 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6167 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6169 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6171 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6173 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6175 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6178 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6180 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6182 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6183 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6184 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6185 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6187 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6188 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6194 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6195 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6196 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6198 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6199 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6200 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6201 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6202 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6203 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6205 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6206 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6207 verification failure".
6209 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6210 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6211 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6212 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6214 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6215 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6216 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6217 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6218 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6219 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6220 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6221 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6222 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6223 treated as a timeout.
6225 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6226 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6227 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6228 not set for Exim filters).
6230 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6231 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6232 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6234 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6236 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6237 try to make them clearer.
6239 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6240 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6242 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6244 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6246 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6247 only the Cygwin environment.
6249 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6250 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6251 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6252 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6253 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6255 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6256 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6257 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6258 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6259 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6260 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6261 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6263 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6264 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6266 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6268 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6269 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6270 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6272 To: susanne@some.where
6274 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6275 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6276 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6277 of addresses in From: header lines).
6279 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6280 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6281 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6283 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6284 treated as non-personal.
6286 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6287 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6289 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6291 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6293 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6294 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6295 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6297 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6298 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6300 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6301 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6302 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6303 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6304 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6305 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6307 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6308 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6309 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6310 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6311 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6312 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6313 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6314 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6316 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6318 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6319 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6321 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6322 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6323 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6325 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6326 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6328 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6329 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6330 rather than long int.
6332 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6334 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6340 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6341 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6342 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6343 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6344 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6345 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6351 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6352 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6354 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6355 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6356 socklen_t is defined.
6358 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6361 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6364 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6365 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6366 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6367 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6368 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6370 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6371 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6372 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6373 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6375 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6376 of flapping under certain conditions.
6378 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6379 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6380 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6382 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6384 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6386 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6387 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6388 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6389 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6391 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6392 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6393 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6394 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6395 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6396 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6397 preserved with the message after it was received.
6399 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6400 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6401 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6402 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6403 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6404 test suite worked just fine.
6406 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6407 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6408 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6410 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6411 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6414 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6415 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6416 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6417 does not fully solve it.
6419 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6420 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6421 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6422 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6423 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6425 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6426 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6427 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6429 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6430 string, for example:
6432 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6434 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6435 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6436 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6437 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6438 the routers could not see them.
6440 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6441 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6443 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6444 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6447 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6448 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6449 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6450 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6451 that needed quoting.
6453 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6454 was not being matched caselessly.
6456 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6459 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6460 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6461 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6462 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6463 when use_sender is false.
6465 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6467 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6469 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6471 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6472 the configuration file.
6474 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6475 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6477 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6479 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6480 bytes in the message body.
6482 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6483 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6486 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6488 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6490 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6491 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6492 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6493 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6500 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6501 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6503 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6504 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6505 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6506 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6507 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6509 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6510 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6512 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6513 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6514 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6516 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6517 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6518 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6520 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6523 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6524 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6525 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6526 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6527 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6528 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6529 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6535 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6536 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6537 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6538 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6539 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6540 default (and expected) setting.
6542 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6543 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6544 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6545 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6547 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6548 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6550 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6553 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6554 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6555 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6556 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6557 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6558 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6560 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6561 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6562 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6564 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6565 part (NOT match_host).
6567 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6569 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6570 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6571 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6572 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6573 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6574 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6575 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6576 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6577 the same named file.
6579 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6580 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6583 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6584 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6585 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6586 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6589 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6590 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6591 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6593 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6595 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6597 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6599 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6600 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6602 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6603 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6604 before starting the TLS session.
6606 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6608 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6609 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6611 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6612 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6613 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6614 colon in the middle).
6620 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6621 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6622 multiple configurations are in use.
6624 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6625 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6626 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6627 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6628 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6629 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6631 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6632 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6634 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6635 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6636 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6638 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6639 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6642 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6643 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6645 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6647 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6648 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6650 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6658 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6659 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6660 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6661 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6662 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6664 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6667 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6668 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6669 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6670 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6671 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6672 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6674 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6675 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6676 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6677 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6678 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6679 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6680 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6683 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6684 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6685 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6686 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6687 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6689 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6691 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6692 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6693 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6695 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6697 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6698 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6699 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6702 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6703 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6705 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6706 Three changes have been made:
6708 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6709 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6710 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6711 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6712 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6714 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6717 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6718 the modified behaviour.
6724 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6727 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6728 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6730 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6731 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6732 try to track down a specific problem.
6734 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6735 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6736 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6738 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6741 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6742 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6743 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6744 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6745 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6746 some earlier ones do not.
6748 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6750 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6751 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6752 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6753 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6754 address literals are enabled, of course).
6756 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6758 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6759 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6760 by a command such as
6764 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6766 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6768 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6769 remained set. It is now erased.
6771 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6772 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6774 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6775 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6776 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6777 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6778 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6779 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6780 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6781 appropriate error code.
6783 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6784 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6785 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6786 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6787 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6788 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6790 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6791 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6792 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6794 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6795 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6796 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6797 terminate the header.
6799 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6800 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6801 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6803 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6804 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6805 (4.30/29). In particular:
6807 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6810 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6811 to write a maildirsize file.
6813 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6814 the transport, the new value overrides.
6816 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6819 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6820 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6821 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6824 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6825 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6826 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6829 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6830 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6831 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6833 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6834 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6837 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6838 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6839 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6841 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6843 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6845 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6847 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6848 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6851 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6852 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6853 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6854 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6855 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6856 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6857 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6860 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6861 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6862 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6863 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6864 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6867 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6868 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6869 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6870 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6871 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6872 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6873 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6874 cached value only when the same options are set.
6876 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6878 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6879 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6880 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6881 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6882 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6884 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6885 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6886 it is clearly obsolete.
6888 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6891 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6892 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6893 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6896 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6897 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6898 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6899 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6900 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6902 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6903 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6904 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6905 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6907 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6909 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6911 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6912 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6915 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6916 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6917 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6918 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6919 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6920 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6923 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6924 with the -f command-line option.
6926 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6927 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6928 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6929 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6930 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6931 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6933 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6934 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6937 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6938 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6939 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6940 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6941 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6942 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6943 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6944 buffer is too small.
6946 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6947 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6949 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6950 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6951 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6952 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6953 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6954 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6955 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6956 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6957 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6959 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6960 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6961 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6963 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6964 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6967 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6968 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6969 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6970 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6971 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6973 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6974 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6975 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6976 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6979 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6981 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6983 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6984 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6986 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6987 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6988 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6990 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6991 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6992 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6993 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6994 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6996 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6997 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6998 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6999 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7000 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7001 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7002 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7004 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7005 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7006 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7007 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7008 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7009 the test of how many are available.
7011 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7012 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7013 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7014 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7015 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7016 new message is started.
7018 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7019 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7021 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7022 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7024 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7025 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7026 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7029 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7030 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7031 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7032 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7033 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7034 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7035 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7037 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7038 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7039 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7040 interpreted as octal.
7042 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7045 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7046 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7047 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7048 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7049 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7050 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7052 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7053 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7054 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7055 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7057 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7058 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7059 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7060 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7062 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7063 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7066 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7067 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7069 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7071 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7072 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7073 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7074 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7076 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7077 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7078 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7079 supplied", which is not helpful.
7081 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7082 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7083 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7085 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7086 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7087 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7088 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7089 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7090 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7091 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7092 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7094 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7095 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7096 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7097 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7098 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7100 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7101 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7102 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7103 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7104 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7105 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7107 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7108 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7109 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7111 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7113 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7114 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7115 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7118 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7120 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7121 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7122 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7123 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7124 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7125 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7126 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7127 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7129 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7130 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7131 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7132 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7133 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7135 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7138 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7139 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7140 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7141 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7142 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7143 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7144 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7145 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7146 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7152 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7153 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7154 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7156 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7159 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7160 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7161 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7163 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7164 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7165 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7166 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7167 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7168 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7170 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7171 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7172 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7173 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7174 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7175 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7176 the Exim test suite.
7178 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7179 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7180 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7181 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7183 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7184 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7185 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7186 specify it in this variable.
7188 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7189 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7190 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7191 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7193 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7194 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7195 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7196 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7198 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7199 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7200 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7201 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7202 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7204 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7206 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7209 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7210 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7211 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7212 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7213 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7215 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7216 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7218 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7219 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7220 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7221 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7222 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7224 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7225 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7227 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7228 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7229 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7231 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7232 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7234 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7235 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7237 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7238 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7239 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7241 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7242 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7244 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7245 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7246 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7247 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7249 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7251 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7252 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7253 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7254 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7256 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7258 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7259 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7261 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7263 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7264 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7265 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7266 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7267 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7268 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7270 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7272 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7273 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7276 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7278 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7279 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7281 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7282 550 Sender verify failed
7284 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7285 the final line of the response.
7287 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7288 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7289 all other user lookups.
7291 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7294 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7295 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7296 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7297 result into an int without checking.
7299 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7300 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7301 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7303 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7304 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7305 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7306 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7308 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7311 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7312 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7314 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7315 to the empty sender.
7317 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7318 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7319 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7320 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7321 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7322 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7323 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7326 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7327 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7328 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7329 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7332 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7333 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7335 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7338 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7339 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7341 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7343 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7344 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7347 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7348 as soon as it is encountered.
7350 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7352 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7355 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7356 recognizes a tab character.
7358 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7359 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7360 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7361 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7363 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7365 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7368 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7370 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7372 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7373 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7376 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7377 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7378 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7379 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7380 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7382 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7383 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7385 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7386 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7387 list (.included file names were always shown).
7389 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7390 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7391 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7394 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7395 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7397 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7399 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7401 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7403 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7404 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7405 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7406 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7407 failures to open the logs.
7409 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7410 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7411 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7412 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7413 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7414 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7415 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7421 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7422 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7423 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7426 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7427 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7428 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7430 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7431 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7432 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7434 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7435 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7436 causing some misleading effects.
7438 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7439 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7440 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7442 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7443 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7444 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7445 queue-runner function directly.
7451 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7454 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7455 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7456 was always written to the default place.
7458 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7459 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7460 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7462 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7464 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7466 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7467 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7468 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7470 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7471 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7474 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7475 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7476 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7478 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7479 command line option is disabled.
7481 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7482 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7484 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7486 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7488 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7489 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7491 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7493 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7494 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7495 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7496 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7497 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7498 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7500 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7501 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7504 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7505 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7507 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7508 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7510 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7511 received was valid base64.
7513 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7514 name of the variable that was being set.
7516 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7518 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7519 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7520 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7521 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7522 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7523 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7525 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7527 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7528 nor realm was specified.
7530 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7531 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7532 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7533 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7535 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7536 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7537 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7539 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7540 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7541 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7543 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7544 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7545 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7546 some systems use these upper case variants.
7548 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7549 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7550 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7551 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7553 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7555 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7556 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7558 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7559 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7562 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7564 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7565 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7566 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7567 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7569 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7572 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7573 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7574 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7576 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7577 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7579 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7580 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7581 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7582 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7584 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7585 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7586 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7588 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7590 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7591 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7592 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7593 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7596 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7597 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7598 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7600 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7602 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7603 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7605 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7606 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7608 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7609 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7610 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7611 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7612 when emails are that large.
7619 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7620 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7622 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7623 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7624 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7626 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7627 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7628 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7630 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7631 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7632 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7633 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7634 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7636 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7637 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7638 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7639 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7640 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7643 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7644 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7645 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7646 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7647 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7648 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7649 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7650 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7651 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7652 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7653 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7654 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7655 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7656 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7658 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7659 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7662 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7663 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7664 error should be diagnosed.
7666 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7667 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7668 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7669 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7670 appeared instead of "NULL".
7672 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7673 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7674 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7675 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7676 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7677 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7680 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7681 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7682 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7688 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7689 or receiver verification errors.
7691 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7694 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7695 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7696 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7697 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7699 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7700 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7701 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7702 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7703 shouldn't happen again.
7705 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7706 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7707 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7709 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7710 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7712 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7714 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7715 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7717 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7718 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7721 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7722 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7723 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7725 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7726 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7727 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7728 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7730 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7731 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7732 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7733 to define what should happen).
7735 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7736 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7737 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7739 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7741 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7743 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7744 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7746 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7747 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7748 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7749 structure in all cases.
7751 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7752 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7753 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7754 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7756 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7757 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7760 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7761 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7763 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7764 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7766 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7767 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7768 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7770 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7771 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7772 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7774 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7775 the book and for uniformity.
7777 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7779 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7780 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7781 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7782 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7783 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7784 non-existent command as the problem.
7786 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7787 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7788 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7790 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7792 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7793 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7794 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7796 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7797 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7798 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7799 timestamps using strftime().
7801 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7802 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7804 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7805 transport-time rewrites.
7807 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7808 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7809 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7810 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7812 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7813 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7815 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7816 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7817 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7818 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7821 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7822 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7823 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7824 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7825 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7826 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7827 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7829 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7830 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7831 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7832 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7833 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7835 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7836 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7837 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7838 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7839 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7840 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7841 remaining text gets split now.
7843 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7844 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7845 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7846 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7848 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7849 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7850 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7851 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7854 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7855 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7856 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7857 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7858 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7859 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7860 passed through if needed.
7862 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7863 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7864 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7865 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7866 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7867 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7869 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7870 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7871 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7872 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7873 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7875 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7876 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7877 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7878 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7879 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7881 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7882 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7885 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7886 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7887 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7888 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7889 mayhem of various kinds.
7891 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7892 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7893 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7894 the right test for positive values.
7896 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7897 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7898 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7899 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7900 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7901 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7902 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7903 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7904 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7905 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7908 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7911 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7912 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7915 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7916 the existing equality matching.
7918 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7919 dealing with inode numbers.
7921 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7922 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7923 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7925 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7926 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7927 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7928 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7931 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7932 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7933 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7934 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7935 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7936 relay addresses has also been removed.
7938 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7940 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7941 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7942 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7944 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7945 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7946 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7947 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7948 processing applies to CR:
7950 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7951 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7953 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7954 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7955 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7956 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7958 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7959 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7960 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7962 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7963 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7964 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7965 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7966 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7967 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7970 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7973 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7974 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7975 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7976 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7979 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7981 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7983 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7985 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7986 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7987 not considered personal.
7989 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7991 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7993 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7995 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7996 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7997 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7998 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7999 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8000 header lines, and spool format errors.
8002 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8003 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8004 for more flexibility.
8006 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8007 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8008 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8010 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8013 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8014 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8015 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8016 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8017 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8018 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8019 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8020 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8021 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8023 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8024 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8025 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8026 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8027 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8028 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8029 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8031 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8032 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8033 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8035 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8036 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8037 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8038 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8039 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8040 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8041 instead of killing the process with assert().
8043 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8044 than Unicode encoding.
8046 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8047 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8048 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8049 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8051 77. Added process_log_path.
8053 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8054 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8056 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8057 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8059 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8060 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8061 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8063 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8064 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8065 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8066 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8067 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8070 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8071 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8074 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8075 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8076 they will be used during message reception.
8082 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.