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
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
305 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
306 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
307 executed child processes (if any).
309 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
316 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
317 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
318 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
320 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
322 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
323 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
326 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
327 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
328 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
330 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
332 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
334 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
335 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
336 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
338 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
339 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
340 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
342 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
343 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
345 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
346 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
349 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
350 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
351 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
352 should both provide the file and set the option.
353 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
355 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
356 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
358 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
359 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
360 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
361 Authentication-Results: header.
363 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
364 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
365 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
366 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
368 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
369 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
370 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
371 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
372 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
373 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
374 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
376 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
377 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
378 copies while it is still usable.
380 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
381 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
382 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
384 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
385 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
387 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
388 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
389 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
390 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
392 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
393 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
394 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
397 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
398 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
399 - the pipe transport command
400 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
401 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
403 - paths used by single-key lookups
404 Previously this was permitted.
406 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
407 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
408 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
409 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
411 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
412 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
413 support larger malloc requests.
415 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
416 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
417 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
418 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
420 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
421 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
422 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
423 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
426 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
427 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
428 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
429 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
430 data being length-specified.
432 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
433 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
434 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
435 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
437 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
438 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
439 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
440 not being properly tracked.
442 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
443 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
444 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
445 minute could be seen.
447 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
448 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
449 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
451 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
452 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
454 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
455 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
458 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
460 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
461 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
463 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
464 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
465 filesystem as sufficient validation.
467 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
468 argument is supplied.
470 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
471 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
472 access under Exim's current working directory.
474 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
475 Previously no event was raised.
477 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
478 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
479 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
482 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
483 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
484 the size of the signature hash.
486 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
487 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
489 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
490 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
491 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
492 dropped between messages.
494 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
495 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
496 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
497 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
499 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
500 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
501 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
502 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
503 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
504 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
505 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
506 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
507 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
509 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
510 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
511 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
513 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
514 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
521 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
522 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
524 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
525 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
528 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
531 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
533 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
535 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
536 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
538 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
539 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
540 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
541 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
542 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
543 suitably configured).
545 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
546 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
548 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
549 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
552 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
553 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
555 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
556 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
557 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
558 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
561 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
562 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
563 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
565 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
568 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
569 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
571 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
572 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
573 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
574 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
577 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
578 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
579 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
580 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
583 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
584 shared (NFS) environment.
586 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
587 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
590 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
591 on some platforms for bit 31.
593 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
594 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
595 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
596 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
597 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
598 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
599 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
600 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
602 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
604 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
605 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
607 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
608 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
611 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
612 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
615 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
616 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
617 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
620 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
621 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
622 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
624 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
625 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
626 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
627 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
628 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
630 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
633 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
634 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
635 be requested on all coneections.
637 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
638 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
640 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
642 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
643 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
644 one for these; the option was ignored.
646 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
647 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
648 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
649 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
651 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
652 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
653 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
656 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
657 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
658 error ignored was made.
660 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
662 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
663 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
664 values, to catch one form of exploit.
666 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
667 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
668 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
670 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
671 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
674 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
675 them in our smtp response.
677 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
678 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
679 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
680 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
681 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
683 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
684 link count into consideration.
686 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
687 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
689 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
690 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
691 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
694 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
696 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
698 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
700 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
701 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
702 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
703 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
705 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
707 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
708 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
711 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
712 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
713 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
715 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
716 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
717 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
719 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
720 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
721 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
722 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
723 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
724 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
725 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
726 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
728 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
729 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
730 resulted in an indefinite loop.
732 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
733 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
734 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
740 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
741 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
743 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
744 non-signal-safe functions being used.
746 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
747 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
748 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
750 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
751 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
752 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
754 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
755 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
756 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
757 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
758 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
761 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
762 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
764 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
765 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
766 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
767 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
768 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
769 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
770 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
772 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
773 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
775 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
778 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
779 Previously this would segfault.
781 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
784 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
785 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
786 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
787 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
788 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
789 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
791 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
793 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
794 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
795 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
796 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
798 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
800 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
801 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
802 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
803 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
805 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
807 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
809 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
810 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
811 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
813 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
814 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
815 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
817 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
819 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
820 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
821 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
822 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
824 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
825 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
826 promised '?' replacement.
828 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
830 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
831 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
832 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
833 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
834 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
836 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
837 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
838 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
840 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
841 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
842 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
844 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
845 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
846 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
848 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
849 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
850 hope that is portable enough.
852 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
853 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
854 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
855 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
857 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
858 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
859 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
861 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
862 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
863 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
864 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
866 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
867 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
869 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
870 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
871 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
872 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
874 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
875 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
876 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
878 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
879 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
880 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
881 the previous G, M, k.
883 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
884 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
887 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
888 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
889 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
890 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
892 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
893 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
895 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
896 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
897 off past the nul-terimation.
899 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
900 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
901 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
902 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
903 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
905 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
907 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
908 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
909 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
912 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
913 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
915 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
916 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
917 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
919 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
920 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
921 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
923 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
924 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
930 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
931 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
932 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
933 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
934 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
935 be defined in redis_servers.
937 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
938 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
940 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
941 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
942 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
943 extant use locations.
945 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
946 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
948 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
949 Previously only the last row was returned.
951 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
952 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
953 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
954 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
957 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
958 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
959 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
960 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
961 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
962 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
963 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
964 Main pool for expansions.
965 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
966 active in the testsuite.
967 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
969 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
970 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
971 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
972 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
975 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
976 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
979 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
980 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
981 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
983 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
984 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
985 ClamAV interface method is removed.
987 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
988 rows affected is given instead).
990 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
991 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
993 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
994 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
995 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
996 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
997 for all multi-message initiating connections.
999 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1000 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1001 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1003 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1004 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1005 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1006 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1009 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1010 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1011 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1014 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1016 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1017 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1019 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1020 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1021 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1023 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1024 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1025 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1028 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1029 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1031 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1032 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1033 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1035 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1036 for the build is renamed.
1038 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1039 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1040 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1042 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1043 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1044 result replacing the original.
1046 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1047 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1048 and the resources needed to be freed.
1050 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1052 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1055 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1056 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1057 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1058 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1060 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1061 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1063 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1064 newer versions of the scanner.
1066 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1067 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1068 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1069 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1070 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1071 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1072 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1074 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1075 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1076 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1077 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1078 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1079 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1080 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1081 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1082 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1083 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1085 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1086 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1088 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1090 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1091 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1093 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1094 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1096 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1097 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1098 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1100 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1101 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1102 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1103 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1105 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1106 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1109 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1110 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1112 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1113 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1114 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1115 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1116 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1118 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1119 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1122 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1123 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1125 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1128 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1129 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1130 "bare" representation.
1132 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1133 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1134 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1135 corrupted the output.
1141 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1142 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1143 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1144 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1146 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1147 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1149 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1150 This permits better logging.
1152 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1153 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1154 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1155 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1156 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1157 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1159 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1160 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1163 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1164 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1165 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1167 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1168 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1170 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1171 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1172 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1173 client, there is no benefit for these.
1174 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1175 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1176 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1179 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1180 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1182 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1183 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1184 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1186 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1187 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1189 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1190 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1191 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1192 signature and again for transmission.
1194 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1195 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1196 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1198 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1199 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1200 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1201 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1202 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1203 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1204 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1206 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1207 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1208 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1209 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1211 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1212 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1213 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1214 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1215 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1216 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1219 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1220 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1221 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1222 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1225 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1226 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1227 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1228 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1231 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1232 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1235 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1236 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1237 banner-time rejection.
1239 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1242 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1243 is the name of a transport.
1246 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1248 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1249 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1251 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1252 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1253 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1256 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1257 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1258 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1259 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1261 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1262 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1263 initial verify call returned a defer.
1265 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1266 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1268 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1269 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1271 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1272 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1274 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1275 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1277 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1278 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1281 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1282 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1284 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1285 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1286 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1288 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1289 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1290 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1291 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1293 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1294 and confused the parent.
1296 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1297 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1299 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1302 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1303 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1304 out-of-order delivery.
1306 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1307 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1308 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1311 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1312 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1315 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1316 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1317 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1319 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1320 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1321 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1322 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1323 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1324 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1326 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1327 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1328 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1330 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1331 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1332 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1334 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1335 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1336 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1337 though a different problem.
1343 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1344 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1346 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1348 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1349 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1351 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1352 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1354 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1355 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1356 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1357 before acknowledging the chunk.
1359 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1360 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1361 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1363 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1364 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1365 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1368 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1369 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1370 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1372 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1373 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1375 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1376 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1377 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1378 body hash calculated value.
1380 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1381 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1382 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1384 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1386 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1387 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1389 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1390 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1391 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1393 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1394 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1395 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1396 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1397 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1398 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1400 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1401 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1402 past that check, despite the cost.
1404 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1405 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1406 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1408 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1409 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1410 TLS library to consume.
1412 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1414 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1416 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1417 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1418 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1419 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1420 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1421 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1422 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1424 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1426 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1428 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1429 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1430 should be warning-free.
1432 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1434 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1435 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1437 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1438 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1439 general solution here.
1441 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1442 already-broken messages in the queue.
1444 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1446 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1452 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1453 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1455 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1456 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1457 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1459 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1460 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1461 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1462 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1463 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1464 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1465 if one fails this test.
1466 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1467 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1469 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1470 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1472 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1473 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1475 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1476 in rewrites and routers.
1478 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1479 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1481 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1482 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1484 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1486 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1489 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1490 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1491 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1492 connection after a verify cache hit.
1493 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1495 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1496 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1498 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1499 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1500 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1501 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1502 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1504 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1505 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1507 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1508 Previously they were not counted.
1510 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1511 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1512 that needed the lookup.
1514 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1515 distinguished as "(=".
1517 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1518 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1520 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1522 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1523 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1525 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1526 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1528 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1529 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1532 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1533 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1534 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1535 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1537 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1539 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1540 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1541 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1543 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1544 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1545 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1548 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1549 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1550 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1553 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1554 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1555 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1557 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1558 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1561 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1563 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1564 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1566 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1567 are not in the system include path.
1569 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1570 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1571 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1572 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1574 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1575 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1576 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1578 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1580 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1581 an incoming connection.
1583 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1586 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1587 fallback to "prime256v1".
1589 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1590 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1596 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1597 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1598 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1599 client dropping the TLS connection.
1601 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1602 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1604 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1605 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1606 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1607 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1610 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1611 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1612 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1613 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1614 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1615 check on the next write.
1617 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1618 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1619 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1620 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1621 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1623 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1624 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1626 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1627 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1628 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1630 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1631 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1632 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1633 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1635 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1636 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1638 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1639 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1641 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1642 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1643 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1646 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1648 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1650 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1652 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1653 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1655 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1656 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1658 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1660 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1661 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1663 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1665 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1666 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1668 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1670 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1671 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1672 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1673 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1674 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1675 they will retry in-clear.
1676 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1677 at installation time.
1679 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1680 with the $config_file variable.
1682 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1683 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1684 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1685 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1686 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1688 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1689 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1690 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1691 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1692 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1694 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1696 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1697 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1698 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1699 list order is no longer honoured.
1701 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1702 for DKIM processing.
1704 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1705 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1707 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1708 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1709 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1710 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1712 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1713 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1715 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1716 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1718 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1719 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1721 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1723 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1724 cached by the daemon.
1726 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1727 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1729 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1730 keys are given for lookup.
1732 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1733 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1734 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1735 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1737 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1738 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1739 server-side so match that on older versions.
1741 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1742 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1743 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1745 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1746 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1748 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1749 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1750 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1751 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1752 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1753 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1754 initial truncated version.
1756 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1758 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1760 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1761 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1763 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1765 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1767 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1768 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1771 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1772 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1775 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1776 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1778 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1779 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1782 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1783 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1784 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1786 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1787 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1788 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1789 extraction. Accept either.
1795 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1798 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1800 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1803 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1804 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1805 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1806 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1808 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1809 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1810 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1812 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1813 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1814 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1817 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1820 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1821 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1822 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1823 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1824 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1826 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1827 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1828 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1830 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1832 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1833 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1835 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1836 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1838 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1841 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1842 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1844 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1845 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1846 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1848 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1849 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1850 specify a port-range.
1852 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1853 timeout value per server.
1855 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1856 now have the list separator specified.
1858 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1861 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1864 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1866 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1867 rather than the verbs used.
1869 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1870 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1872 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1874 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1875 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1877 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1878 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1880 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1881 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1883 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1885 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1887 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1888 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1889 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1890 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1892 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1894 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1895 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1897 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1898 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1900 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1902 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1904 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1906 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1907 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1909 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1910 added for tls authenticator.
1912 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1918 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1919 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1920 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1921 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1922 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1923 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1924 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1926 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1927 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1928 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1929 function when detected.
1931 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1932 cause callback expansion.
1934 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1935 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1936 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1937 instead of bool when processing it.
1939 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1940 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1942 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1944 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1946 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1948 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1949 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1951 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1952 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1953 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1954 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1955 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1956 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1958 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1959 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1962 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1963 version 3.3.6 or later.
1965 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1966 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1967 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1968 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1969 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1970 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1973 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1974 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1976 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1977 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1978 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1981 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1982 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1983 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1985 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1986 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1988 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1989 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1992 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1994 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1995 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1997 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1998 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2001 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2003 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2006 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2007 output list separator was used.
2012 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2013 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2016 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2017 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2019 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2021 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2022 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2028 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2030 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2031 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2032 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2033 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2034 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2035 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2037 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2038 utilities have not been installed.
2040 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2041 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2043 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2044 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2046 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2047 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2048 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2049 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2051 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2053 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2054 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2056 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2059 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2061 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2062 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2063 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2065 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2066 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2067 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2068 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2069 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2070 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2072 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2074 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2075 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2077 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2080 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2082 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2084 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2085 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2087 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2088 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2090 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2092 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2094 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2095 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2097 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2098 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2099 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2101 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2102 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2103 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2106 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2108 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2109 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2112 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2113 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2116 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2117 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2119 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2120 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2122 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2124 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2125 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2126 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2128 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2129 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2131 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2132 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2135 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2136 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2137 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2139 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2141 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2142 Christian Aistleitner.
2144 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2146 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2147 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2149 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2150 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2152 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2153 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2155 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2156 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2158 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2159 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2161 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2162 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2163 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2165 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2167 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2168 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2171 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2173 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2174 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2181 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2183 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2184 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2186 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2189 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2190 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2193 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2195 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2196 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2197 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2198 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2199 using channel bindings instead).
2201 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2202 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2203 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2204 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2205 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2208 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2210 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2212 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2213 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2215 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2216 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2217 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2219 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2221 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2223 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2224 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2226 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2228 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2230 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2232 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2233 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2235 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2237 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2238 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2241 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2242 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2244 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2245 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2248 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2250 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2252 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2253 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2255 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2258 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2259 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2261 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2262 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2264 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2266 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2268 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2271 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2274 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2276 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2277 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2278 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2279 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2281 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2283 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2284 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2285 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2286 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2289 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2290 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2291 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2293 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2294 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2295 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2296 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2298 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2299 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2300 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2301 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2302 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2303 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2304 delivery, as in LMTP.
2306 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2307 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2309 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2311 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2315 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2316 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2317 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2318 username as equal to the username.
2320 This change corrects that bug.
2322 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2323 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2324 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2326 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2328 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2329 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2330 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2331 NULL dereference and crash.
2333 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2335 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2336 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2337 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2339 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2341 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2342 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2343 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2344 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2345 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2346 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2347 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2348 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2349 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2350 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2351 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2353 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2354 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2356 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2357 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2360 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2361 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2362 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2363 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2364 an empty string is now equivalent.
2366 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2367 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2368 not performing validation itself.
2370 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2371 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2373 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2376 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2378 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2379 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2380 other false fix of the same issue.
2381 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2384 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2385 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2387 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2388 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2389 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2391 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2392 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2393 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2395 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2397 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2399 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2400 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2402 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2405 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2406 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2407 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2408 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2409 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2411 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2412 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2414 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2415 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2418 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2419 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2420 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2421 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2423 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2425 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2426 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2427 from multiple comments on this bug.
2429 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2431 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2432 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2435 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2436 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2438 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2439 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2445 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2447 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2453 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2454 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2455 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2457 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2459 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2462 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2464 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2466 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2468 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2469 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2471 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2472 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2474 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2475 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2477 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2478 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2479 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2481 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2483 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2484 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2486 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2488 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2490 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2491 non-compliant senders.
2492 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2494 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2495 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2496 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2498 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2499 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2500 in spool file corruption.
2502 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2503 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2504 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2507 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2508 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2509 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2511 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2512 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2514 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2516 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2518 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2520 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2521 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2522 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2524 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2525 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2526 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2527 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2529 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2530 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2532 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2533 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2534 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2535 resolver implementation change.
2537 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2538 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2540 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2542 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2544 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2545 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2547 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2548 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2550 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2551 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2553 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2554 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2555 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2556 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2557 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2559 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2561 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2562 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2563 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2565 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2567 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2568 read-only, out of scope).
2569 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2571 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2572 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2573 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2574 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2576 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2578 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2579 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2580 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2581 real issues in debug logging.
2583 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2584 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2586 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2587 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2588 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2590 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2591 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2592 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2595 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2596 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2598 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2599 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2600 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2601 needs to override this, it can.
2603 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2604 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2605 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2607 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2608 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2609 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2610 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2612 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2618 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2619 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2621 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2623 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2626 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2627 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2629 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2630 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2631 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2633 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2634 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2635 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2636 not safe for signals.
2638 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2639 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2640 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2641 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2644 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2646 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2647 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2648 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2649 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2650 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2652 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2653 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2654 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2655 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2656 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2657 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2659 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2660 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2661 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2662 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2664 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2665 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2666 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2667 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2669 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2670 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2671 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2672 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2673 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2674 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2675 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2676 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2677 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2679 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2680 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2681 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2682 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2684 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2685 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2686 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2687 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2688 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2689 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2690 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2691 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2692 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2693 details in the main documentation.
2695 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2697 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2699 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2700 repository when doing development or release builds.
2702 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2703 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2705 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2706 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2709 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2711 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2712 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2714 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2715 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2717 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2718 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2720 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2721 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2723 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2724 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2726 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2728 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2731 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2732 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2733 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2735 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2737 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2739 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2740 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2746 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2748 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2749 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2751 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2753 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2755 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2758 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2759 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2761 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2762 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2764 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2765 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2767 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2770 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2771 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2773 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2774 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2775 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2776 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2778 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2779 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2785 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2788 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2789 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2790 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2792 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2793 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2795 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2796 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2797 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2799 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2800 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2802 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2803 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2805 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2806 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2808 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2809 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2811 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2812 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2814 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2817 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2818 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2820 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2821 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2823 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2824 SQL string expansion failure details.
2825 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2827 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2828 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2830 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2831 extern declarations in function scope.
2832 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2834 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2835 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2836 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2839 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2840 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2842 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2843 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2845 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2846 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2848 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2849 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2851 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2852 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2855 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2857 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2859 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2860 Patch by Simon Arlott
2862 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2863 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2869 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2870 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2872 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2873 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2875 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2877 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2878 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2879 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2881 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2882 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2883 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2885 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2886 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2887 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2888 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2890 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2891 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2892 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2893 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2895 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2896 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2897 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2900 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2903 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2904 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2905 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2906 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2907 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2913 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2914 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2915 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2917 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2918 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2920 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2922 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2924 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2926 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2928 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2930 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2931 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2932 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2933 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2935 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2936 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2937 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2938 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2939 more caution in buffer sizes.
2941 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2943 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2945 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2947 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2949 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2951 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2953 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2955 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2956 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2957 ignore trailing whitespace.
2959 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2961 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2964 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2965 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2967 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2968 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2969 Notification from John Horne.
2971 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2974 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2975 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2978 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2981 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2982 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2983 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2985 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2986 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2987 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2990 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2991 option (effectively making it always true).
2993 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2994 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2996 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2997 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2999 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3000 run-time user, instead of root.
3002 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3003 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3005 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3006 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3009 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3010 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3011 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3013 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3015 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3021 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3022 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3025 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3026 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3029 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3030 Patch from Alain Williams
3032 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3034 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3035 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3037 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3038 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3040 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3042 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3044 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3045 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3047 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3049 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3051 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3052 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3053 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3055 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3056 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3058 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3059 Patch by Simon Arlott
3061 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3062 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3068 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3070 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3072 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3074 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3076 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3082 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3083 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3085 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3086 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3089 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3090 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3091 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3093 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3094 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3096 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3097 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3098 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3099 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3101 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3102 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3103 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3105 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3107 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3109 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3110 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3112 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3114 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3115 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3116 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3117 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3119 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3120 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3122 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3124 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3126 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3127 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3129 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3130 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3132 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3133 that they are available at delivery time.
3135 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3137 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3138 incoming_port log selectors.
3140 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3141 setting expands to an empty string.
3143 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3144 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3146 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3147 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3149 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3150 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3152 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3153 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3155 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3156 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3158 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3159 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3161 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3163 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3164 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3166 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3167 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3169 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3171 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3172 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3174 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3176 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3178 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3181 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3182 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3184 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3185 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3187 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3188 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3190 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3191 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3193 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3194 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3196 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3197 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3199 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3200 plus update to original patch.
3202 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3204 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3205 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3207 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3209 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3211 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3213 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3215 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3216 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3218 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3219 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3221 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3222 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3224 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3225 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3227 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3229 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3231 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3233 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3239 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3240 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3241 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3243 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3244 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3245 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3246 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3247 build errors in sieve.c.
3249 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3250 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3251 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3253 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3255 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3257 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3259 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3265 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3267 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3268 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3269 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3270 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3271 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3272 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3273 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3274 for iplsearch lookups.
3276 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3277 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3278 previously such lookups could never work.
3280 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3281 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3282 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3284 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3287 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3288 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3289 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3290 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3291 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3292 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3294 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3295 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3297 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3298 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3299 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3300 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3301 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3302 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3304 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3307 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3309 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3310 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3313 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3314 by clients under certain conditions.
3316 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3317 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3319 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3321 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3322 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3324 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3326 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3328 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3330 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3331 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3333 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3335 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3336 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3338 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3340 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3342 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3343 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3344 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3345 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3347 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3348 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3349 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3351 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3352 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3354 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3356 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3358 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3360 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3361 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3362 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3368 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3369 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3372 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3373 issue a MAIL command.
3375 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3377 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3379 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3380 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3381 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3382 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3383 item. This has been fixed.
3385 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3386 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3388 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3389 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3391 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3392 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3393 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3395 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3397 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3398 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3399 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3400 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3401 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3403 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3404 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3405 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3407 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3408 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3409 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3410 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3412 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3414 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3416 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3417 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3418 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3419 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3420 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3422 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3424 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3425 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3426 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3429 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3431 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3433 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3435 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3437 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3439 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3440 no_callout_flush is set.
3442 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3443 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3444 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3447 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3449 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3450 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3451 other ACL rejections are.
3453 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3454 with slight modification.
3456 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3457 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3459 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3460 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3463 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3464 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3466 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3468 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3469 expansion side effects.
3471 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3472 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3473 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3476 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3477 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3478 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3480 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3481 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3482 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3483 were accidentally chopped off.
3485 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3486 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3487 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3488 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3489 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3490 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3491 pipelining has not been advertised.
3493 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3495 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3496 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3497 This has been fixed.
3499 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3500 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3501 reported on Solaris.
3503 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3504 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3505 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3506 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3507 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3508 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3509 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3511 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3514 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3516 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3518 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3519 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3520 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3521 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3522 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3523 criteria to be more general.
3525 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3526 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3527 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3528 host_all_ignored option.
3530 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3531 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3532 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3533 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3534 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3535 is what is supposed to happen).
3537 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3538 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3539 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3540 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3541 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3544 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3545 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3546 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3547 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3548 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3549 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3552 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3554 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3555 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3557 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3558 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3560 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3562 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3564 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3565 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3566 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3567 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3568 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3569 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3570 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3571 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3572 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3573 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3574 least in a lot of common cases.
3576 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3577 advertised in response to EHLO.
3583 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3584 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3586 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3587 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3589 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3590 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3591 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3593 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3594 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3595 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3596 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3597 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3603 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3604 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3607 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3608 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3609 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3611 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3612 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3613 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3614 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3615 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3616 rather than extend the field.
3622 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3623 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3624 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3625 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3628 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3629 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3630 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3632 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3633 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3634 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3636 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3637 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3638 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3641 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3642 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3643 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3644 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3645 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3646 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3647 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3648 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3649 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3650 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3651 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3653 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3656 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3657 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3658 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3659 ignores EPIPE as well.
3661 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3662 (quoted-printable decoding).
3664 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3665 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3667 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3669 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3671 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3673 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3674 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3676 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3679 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3680 miscellaneous code fixes
3682 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3685 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3686 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3687 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3688 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3689 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3690 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3691 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3692 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3694 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3695 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3696 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3697 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3699 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3700 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3701 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3702 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3703 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3704 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3705 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3706 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3707 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3709 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3712 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3713 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3714 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3715 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3716 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3717 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3718 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3719 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3721 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3722 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3725 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3726 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3727 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3728 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3729 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3730 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3731 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3732 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3733 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3734 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3735 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3736 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3737 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3739 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3740 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3741 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3742 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3743 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3744 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3745 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3747 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3748 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3749 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3750 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3751 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3752 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3753 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3754 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3755 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3756 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3758 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3759 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3760 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3761 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3762 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3764 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3765 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3766 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3767 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3768 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3769 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3770 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3772 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3773 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3774 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3775 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3776 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3777 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3780 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3781 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3782 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3785 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3786 if any retry times were supplied.
3788 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3789 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3790 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3792 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3794 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3796 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3797 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3798 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3799 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3800 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3801 before) are ignored.
3803 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3804 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3806 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3807 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3808 committing the later change.]
3810 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3811 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3812 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3813 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3814 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3815 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3816 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3817 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3818 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3820 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3821 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3822 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3823 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3824 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3825 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3826 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3827 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3828 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3830 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3831 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3832 hammering the server.
3834 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3835 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3837 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3839 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3840 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3841 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3843 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3844 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3845 one case where this was not true.
3847 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3848 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3849 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3850 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3853 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3854 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3855 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3856 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3857 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3858 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3859 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3860 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3861 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3864 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3865 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3866 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3867 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3869 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3870 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3872 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3873 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3874 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3876 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3878 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3880 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3882 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3883 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3884 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3885 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3887 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3888 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3890 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3891 be meaningful with "accept".
3893 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3894 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3896 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3897 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3898 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3900 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3901 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3902 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3903 there is data to show.
3904 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3906 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3907 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3908 as well as the number of messages.
3910 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3911 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3912 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3914 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3915 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3916 have a flag are now skipped.
3918 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3919 Added the -emptyok flag.
3921 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3922 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3924 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3925 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3926 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3928 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3931 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3932 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3934 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3936 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3937 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3939 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3941 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3942 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3943 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3944 contravention of the specifications.
3946 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3947 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3948 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3950 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3951 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3952 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3954 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3956 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3957 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3958 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3959 some point in the past.
3961 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3962 transport during callout processing was broken.
3964 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3965 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3967 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3968 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3970 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3971 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3973 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3979 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3980 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3982 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3983 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3984 there is data to show.
3985 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3987 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3988 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3990 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3991 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3993 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3994 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3996 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3997 submissions from trusted users.
3999 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4000 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4002 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4003 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4004 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4005 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4006 there is now a framework to start from.
4008 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4009 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4010 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4012 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4014 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4016 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4018 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4019 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4020 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4022 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4025 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4026 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4027 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4029 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4030 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4031 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4034 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4035 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4036 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4037 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4038 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4040 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4041 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4043 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4045 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4046 operations in malware.c.
4048 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4051 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4052 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4053 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4056 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4057 statements to "add_header".
4059 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4060 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4062 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4063 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4066 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4070 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4071 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4072 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4075 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4076 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4078 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4079 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4081 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4082 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4083 any possible encoding problems.
4085 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4086 but not after initializing Perl.
4088 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4089 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4090 apparently, which is not desirable.
4092 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4095 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4098 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4100 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4101 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4102 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4103 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4105 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4106 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4107 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4109 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4110 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4111 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4114 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4115 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4116 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4117 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4118 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4124 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4125 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4127 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4130 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4131 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4132 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4133 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4134 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4135 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4136 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4137 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4140 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4142 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4143 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4144 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4146 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4147 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4148 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4151 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4152 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4154 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4155 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4156 option (which defaults to 0600).
4158 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4160 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4161 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4162 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4163 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4164 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4165 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4166 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4168 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4174 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4175 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4176 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4177 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4178 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4179 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4182 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4183 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4185 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4187 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4188 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4189 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4190 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4191 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4194 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4195 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4197 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4198 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4199 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4200 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4201 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4203 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4204 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4205 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4206 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4208 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4209 be the same on different OS.
4211 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4214 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4215 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4217 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4220 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4221 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4222 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4223 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4224 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4225 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4228 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4229 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4230 when Exim was called.
4232 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4233 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4235 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4236 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4237 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4238 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4240 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4241 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4242 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4243 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4246 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4247 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4248 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4250 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4251 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4252 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4254 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4257 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4258 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4259 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4260 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4261 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4262 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4263 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4264 values from the SRV records were lost.
4266 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4267 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4268 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4270 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4271 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4272 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4274 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4275 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4276 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4277 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4278 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4279 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4280 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4281 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4282 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4283 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4285 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4286 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4287 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4289 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4290 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4292 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4293 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4294 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4295 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4298 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4299 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4300 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4302 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4303 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4304 PH/23 above applies.
4306 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4307 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4308 (for which there is an explicit test).
4310 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4312 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4313 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4314 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4315 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4316 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4318 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4319 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4320 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4321 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4323 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4324 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4325 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4327 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4329 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4331 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4332 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4333 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4335 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4336 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4337 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4338 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4339 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4341 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4342 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4343 the message gets confusing).
4345 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4346 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4347 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4348 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4350 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4351 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4352 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4353 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4356 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4357 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4358 the different processes.
4360 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4362 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4364 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4365 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4367 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4368 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4370 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4371 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4372 messages matching specified criteria.
4374 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4376 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4377 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4379 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4380 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4381 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4382 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4383 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4384 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4385 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4386 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4387 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4388 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4390 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4391 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4392 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4394 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4396 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4397 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4398 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4399 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4400 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4401 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4402 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4405 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4406 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4408 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4410 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4412 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4414 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4415 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4416 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4417 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4418 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4419 size of the count of files.
4421 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4423 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4426 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4427 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4428 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4429 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4431 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4432 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4433 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4435 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4436 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4437 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4438 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4439 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4441 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4442 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4444 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4445 will now be deprecated.
4447 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4449 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4450 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4451 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4453 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4454 with very large, slow to parse queues
4456 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4458 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4460 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4461 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4462 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4465 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4466 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4467 Sieve code now uses this.
4469 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4470 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4472 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4473 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4475 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4477 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4478 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4479 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4480 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4481 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4483 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4484 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4485 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4486 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4488 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4490 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4492 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4493 is preferred over IPv4.
4495 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4496 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4497 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4498 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4499 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4500 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4501 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4503 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4504 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4505 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4507 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4509 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4510 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4511 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4512 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4513 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4514 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4515 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4516 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4517 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4518 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4519 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4521 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4522 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4523 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4529 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4531 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4532 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4534 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4535 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4536 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4538 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4540 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4543 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4546 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4547 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4548 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4551 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4552 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4554 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4555 inside the third argument.
4557 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4558 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4561 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4562 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4564 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4565 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4567 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4569 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4570 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4573 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4575 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4576 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4577 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4578 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4579 identical. For example:
4581 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4583 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4584 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4585 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4587 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4588 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4589 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4590 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4592 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4593 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4594 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4597 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4599 o fixes some comments
4600 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4601 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4602 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4603 and documents the missing references header update
4607 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4608 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4611 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4612 Electronic Mail") by including:
4614 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4616 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4617 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4618 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4619 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4620 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4622 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4624 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4626 The auto-replied keyword:
4628 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4629 message by an automatic process,
4631 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4633 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4634 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4636 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4637 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4640 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4641 to the default Received: header definition.
4643 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4645 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4646 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4647 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4649 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4650 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4651 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4653 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4654 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4655 and treats the condition as false.
4657 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4659 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4660 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4661 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4662 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4663 not changing the active code.
4665 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4666 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4668 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4669 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4671 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4674 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4675 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4676 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4677 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4678 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4679 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4680 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4681 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4682 the text comparison.
4684 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4685 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4686 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4687 The same fix has been applied.
4693 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4694 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4697 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4698 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4700 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4702 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4703 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4704 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4705 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4706 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4708 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4709 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4710 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4711 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4714 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4722 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4723 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4725 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4727 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4729 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4730 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4731 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4733 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4734 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4735 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4737 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4738 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4741 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4742 ${stat: expansion item.
4744 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4745 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4747 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4748 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4751 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4753 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4756 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4757 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4759 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4761 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4762 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4763 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4764 the end of the subprocess.
4766 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4767 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4768 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4769 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4770 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4772 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4774 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4776 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4777 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4779 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4781 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4783 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4784 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4787 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4789 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4790 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4791 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4793 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4794 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4796 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4797 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4799 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4800 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4802 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4803 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4805 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4806 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4807 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4808 contributed by a Radius user.
4810 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4811 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4813 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4814 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4816 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4819 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4820 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4823 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4824 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4825 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4826 header lines when this was not necessary.
4828 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4830 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4831 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4832 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4835 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4838 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4839 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4840 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4841 return code was incorrect.
4843 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4845 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4847 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4849 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4851 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4852 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4853 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4854 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4855 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4858 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4860 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4861 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4862 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4863 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4864 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4865 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4866 which is clearly wrong.
4868 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4870 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4871 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4872 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4875 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4876 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4878 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4880 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4881 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4883 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4884 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4886 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4887 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4889 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4890 recipients, not senders.
4892 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4893 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4895 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4897 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4899 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4900 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4901 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4902 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4904 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4906 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4907 clock is set back in time.
4909 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4910 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4912 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4913 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4915 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4916 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4919 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4920 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4923 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4926 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4928 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4929 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4930 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4932 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4933 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4934 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4935 helo verification defer as a failure.
4937 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4938 actual error message.
4944 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4946 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4947 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4948 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4949 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4951 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4953 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4954 can still be requested.
4956 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4957 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4958 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4959 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4961 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4962 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4963 circumstances, but probably never did.
4965 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4966 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4967 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4970 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4972 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4973 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4975 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4977 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4979 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4980 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4981 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4982 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4983 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4984 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4986 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4987 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4988 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4989 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4990 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4991 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4993 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4994 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4996 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4997 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4999 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5000 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5002 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5004 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5006 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5008 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5010 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5012 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5014 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5016 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5017 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5018 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5020 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5021 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5022 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5023 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5025 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5026 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5027 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5029 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5030 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5031 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5032 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5034 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5035 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5038 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5039 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5040 should work with maildirs and everything.
5042 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5043 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5045 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5048 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5049 function for BDB 4.3.
5051 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5053 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5054 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5057 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5058 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5059 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5060 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5061 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5062 formatting function string_vformat().
5064 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5065 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5066 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5067 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5068 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5069 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5070 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5071 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5073 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5074 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5077 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5078 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5080 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5081 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5082 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5083 test. It is now used for both.
5085 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5086 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5087 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5088 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5089 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5090 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5092 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5093 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5094 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5097 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5098 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5099 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5101 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5102 experimental DomainKeys support:
5104 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5105 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5106 the control was given.
5108 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5110 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5112 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5114 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5115 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5116 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5119 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5120 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5121 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5122 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5123 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5124 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5127 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5128 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5129 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5130 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5131 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5132 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5134 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5135 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5136 do -d+all out of habit.
5138 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5139 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5142 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5143 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5144 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5145 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5146 record types that Exim uses.
5148 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5149 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5150 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5151 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5152 non-existent file that was broken.
5154 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5155 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5157 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5158 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5159 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5161 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5163 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5164 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5165 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5166 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5167 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5170 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5171 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5172 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5173 at a slight CPU cost.
5175 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5176 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5178 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5181 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5183 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5184 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5190 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5191 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5193 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5195 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5197 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5198 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5200 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5201 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5202 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5203 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5204 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5205 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5208 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5209 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5210 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5211 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5214 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5215 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5216 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5217 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5218 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5219 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5220 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5223 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5224 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5226 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5227 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5228 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5229 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5230 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5231 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5233 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5234 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5235 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5236 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5238 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5241 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5242 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5244 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5245 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5246 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5247 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5250 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5252 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5253 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5255 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5256 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5257 to what was transported.)
5259 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5261 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5262 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5263 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5264 spamd_address settings.
5266 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5267 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5268 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5269 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5270 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5272 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5274 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5275 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5276 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5277 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5278 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5280 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5281 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5283 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5284 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5285 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5286 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5287 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5288 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5289 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5292 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5293 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5294 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5295 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5296 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5297 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5298 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5301 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5303 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5304 driver and ACL definitions.
5306 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5307 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5309 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5310 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5311 understands it better than I do:
5313 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5314 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5316 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5317 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5318 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5319 => three warnings about OTP not working
5320 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5322 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5323 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5324 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5325 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5327 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5328 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5330 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5331 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5332 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5334 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5335 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5338 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5339 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5342 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5343 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5344 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5346 warn !verify = sender
5347 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5349 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5350 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5352 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5354 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5355 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5357 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5358 nomenclature these days.)
5360 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5361 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5363 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5364 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5365 . First host does not offer TLS;
5366 . First host accepts first address;
5367 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5368 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5369 . Second host accepts second address.
5370 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5371 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5374 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5375 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5376 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5377 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5378 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5380 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5381 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5383 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5384 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5386 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5387 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5388 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5390 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5391 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5394 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5396 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5397 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5398 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5399 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5400 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5401 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5402 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5404 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5405 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5406 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5407 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5408 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5410 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5411 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5414 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5415 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5416 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5417 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5418 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5419 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5421 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5423 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5424 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5425 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5426 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5427 printable escape sequences.
5429 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5430 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5433 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5434 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5437 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5438 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5439 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5440 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5441 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5443 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5444 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5445 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5447 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5449 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5450 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5453 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5454 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5455 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5456 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5457 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5458 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5459 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5460 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5461 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5464 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5465 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5466 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5467 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5471 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5472 ----------------------------------------
5474 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5475 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5476 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5477 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5478 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5479 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5482 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5483 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5484 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5485 historical information.
5491 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5493 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5494 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5496 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5497 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5500 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5501 filter fails to execute.
5503 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5504 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5505 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5506 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5507 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5509 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5511 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5512 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5513 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5514 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5516 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5517 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5518 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5519 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5520 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5522 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5524 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5526 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5527 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5528 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5529 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5531 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5532 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5533 sender verification.
5535 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5536 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5538 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5540 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5543 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5544 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5546 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5547 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5549 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5550 information about exactly what failed.
5552 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5554 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5555 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5556 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5558 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5559 It is now set to "smtps".
5561 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5562 ignore_target_hosts.
5564 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5565 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5566 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5567 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5570 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5571 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5572 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5574 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5575 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5576 wake it up if nothing else does.
5578 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5579 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5580 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5583 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5584 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5586 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5588 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5589 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5590 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5591 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5592 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5593 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5594 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5595 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5597 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5598 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5599 than one IP address.
5601 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5602 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5603 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5604 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5606 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5607 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5608 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5609 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5610 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5613 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5614 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5615 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5616 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5618 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5619 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5622 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5623 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5624 $sender_host_address.
5626 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5627 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5628 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5629 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5630 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5633 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5635 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5636 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5638 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5639 just the host names, not the priorities.
5641 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5642 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5643 controlled by a keyword.
5645 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5646 multiple records are returned.
5648 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5649 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5652 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5654 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5655 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5657 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5658 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5659 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5661 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5663 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5665 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5667 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5668 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5669 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5670 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5671 because the tests only now provoked it.
5673 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5674 (this can affect the format of dates).
5676 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5677 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5678 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5679 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5681 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5683 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5684 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5685 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5686 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5688 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5689 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5690 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5692 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5695 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5696 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5697 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5698 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5699 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5700 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5703 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5704 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5705 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5708 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5709 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5710 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5712 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5713 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5714 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5715 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5716 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5717 so I produce this patch..."
5719 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5720 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5723 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5724 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5725 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5726 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5729 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5731 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5732 long debug lines gets shown.
5734 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5735 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5737 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5739 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5740 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5741 of $primary_hostname.
5743 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5744 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5745 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5746 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5747 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5748 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5749 by change 4.50/55 above.
5751 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5752 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5753 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5754 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5755 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5756 running as the user.
5759 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5760 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5761 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5764 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5765 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5767 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5768 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5769 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5770 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5771 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5773 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5774 This has been fixed.
5776 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5777 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5778 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5779 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5782 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5784 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5785 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5786 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5787 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5789 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5790 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5792 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5793 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5794 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5796 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5797 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5798 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5801 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5802 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5803 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5805 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5806 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5807 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5808 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5810 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5811 during host lookups.
5813 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5814 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5816 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5818 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5819 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5820 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5821 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5822 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5825 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5826 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5828 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5829 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5830 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5832 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5834 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5835 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5836 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5837 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5838 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5839 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5842 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5843 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5844 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5845 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5846 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5848 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5851 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5853 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5854 "vacation" handling.
5856 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5857 OS variants using glibc.
5859 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5862 ----------------------------------------------------
5863 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5864 ----------------------------------------------------
5870 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5871 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5874 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5875 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5878 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5879 filter fails to execute.
5881 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5882 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5883 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5884 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5885 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5887 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5888 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5889 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5890 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5892 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5893 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5894 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5895 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5896 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5898 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5900 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5901 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5902 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5903 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5905 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5906 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5907 sender verification.
5909 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5910 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5912 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5913 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5915 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5916 ignore_target_hosts.
5918 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5919 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5920 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5921 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5924 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5925 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5926 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5928 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5929 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5930 wake it up if nothing else does.
5932 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5933 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5934 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5937 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5938 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5940 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5942 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5943 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5946 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5947 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5950 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5951 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5952 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5953 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5954 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5957 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5958 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5961 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5962 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5963 $sender_host_address.
5965 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5967 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5968 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5969 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5971 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5974 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5975 (this can affect the format of dates).
5977 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5978 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5979 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5980 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5982 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5983 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5984 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5986 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5987 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5988 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5989 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5991 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5992 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5993 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5995 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5998 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5999 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6000 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6001 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6002 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6003 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6006 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6007 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6008 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6009 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6012 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6013 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6014 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6015 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6016 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6017 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6018 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6020 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6021 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6022 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6023 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6024 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6025 running as the user.
6028 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6029 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6030 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6033 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6034 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6035 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6036 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6037 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6039 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6040 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6041 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6042 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6045 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6046 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6047 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6048 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6049 because the tests only now provoked it.
6055 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6056 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6057 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6058 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6059 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6060 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6061 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6063 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6064 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6067 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6069 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6071 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6072 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6075 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6076 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6077 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6078 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6079 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6081 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6082 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6084 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6086 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6088 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6091 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6092 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6094 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6095 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6096 affecting debugging statements).
6098 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6100 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6101 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6102 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6103 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6104 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6105 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6106 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6107 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6108 after the received time, and all would be well.
6110 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6111 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6112 condition in an expansion string.
6114 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6116 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6117 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6118 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6119 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6120 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6121 job under whatever limits there are.
6123 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6125 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6128 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6129 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6130 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6131 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6134 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6135 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6136 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6137 binary data in such strings.
6139 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6141 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6142 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6143 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6144 failure, which is pointless.
6146 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6148 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6150 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6151 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6152 Sender: header lines.
6154 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6155 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6156 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6158 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6159 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6160 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6161 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6162 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6165 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6166 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6167 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6168 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6169 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6171 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6172 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6173 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6176 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6177 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6179 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6180 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6182 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6184 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6186 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6188 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6191 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6193 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6195 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6196 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6197 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6198 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6200 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6201 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6207 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6208 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6209 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6211 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6212 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6213 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6214 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6215 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6216 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6218 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6219 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6220 verification failure".
6222 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6223 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6224 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6225 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6227 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6228 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6229 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6230 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6231 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6232 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6233 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6234 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6235 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6236 treated as a timeout.
6238 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6239 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6240 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6241 not set for Exim filters).
6243 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6244 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6245 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6247 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6249 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6250 try to make them clearer.
6252 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6253 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6255 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6257 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6259 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6260 only the Cygwin environment.
6262 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6263 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6264 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6265 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6266 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6268 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6269 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6270 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6271 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6272 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6273 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6274 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6276 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6277 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6279 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6281 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6282 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6283 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6285 To: susanne@some.where
6287 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6288 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6289 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6290 of addresses in From: header lines).
6292 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6293 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6294 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6296 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6297 treated as non-personal.
6299 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6300 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6302 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6304 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6306 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6307 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6308 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6310 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6311 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6313 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6314 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6315 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6316 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6317 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6318 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6320 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6321 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6322 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6323 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6324 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6325 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6326 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6327 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6329 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6331 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6332 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6334 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6335 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6336 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6338 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6339 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6341 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6342 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6343 rather than long int.
6345 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6347 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6353 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6354 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6355 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6356 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6357 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6358 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6364 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6365 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6367 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6368 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6369 socklen_t is defined.
6371 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6374 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6377 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6378 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6379 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6380 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6381 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6383 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6384 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6385 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6386 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6388 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6389 of flapping under certain conditions.
6391 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6392 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6393 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6395 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6397 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6399 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6400 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6401 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6402 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6404 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6405 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6406 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6407 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6408 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6409 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6410 preserved with the message after it was received.
6412 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6413 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6414 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6415 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6416 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6417 test suite worked just fine.
6419 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6420 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6421 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6423 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6424 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6427 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6428 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6429 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6430 does not fully solve it.
6432 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6433 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6434 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6435 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6436 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6438 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6439 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6440 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6442 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6443 string, for example:
6445 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6447 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6448 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6449 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6450 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6451 the routers could not see them.
6453 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6454 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6456 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6457 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6460 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6461 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6462 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6463 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6464 that needed quoting.
6466 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6467 was not being matched caselessly.
6469 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6472 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6473 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6474 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6475 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6476 when use_sender is false.
6478 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6480 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6482 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6484 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6485 the configuration file.
6487 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6488 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6490 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6492 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6493 bytes in the message body.
6495 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6496 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6499 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6501 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6503 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6504 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6505 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6506 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6513 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6514 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6516 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6517 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6518 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6519 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6520 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6522 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6523 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6525 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6526 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6527 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6529 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6530 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6531 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6533 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6536 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6537 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6538 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6539 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6540 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6541 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6542 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6548 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6549 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6550 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6551 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6552 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6553 default (and expected) setting.
6555 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6556 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6557 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6558 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6560 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6561 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6563 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6566 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6567 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6568 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6569 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6570 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6571 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6573 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6574 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6575 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6577 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6578 part (NOT match_host).
6580 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6582 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6583 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6584 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6585 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6586 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6587 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6588 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6589 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6590 the same named file.
6592 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6593 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6596 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6597 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6598 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6599 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6602 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6603 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6604 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6606 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6608 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6610 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6612 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6613 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6615 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6616 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6617 before starting the TLS session.
6619 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6621 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6622 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6624 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6625 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6626 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6627 colon in the middle).
6633 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6634 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6635 multiple configurations are in use.
6637 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6638 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6639 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6640 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6641 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6642 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6644 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6645 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6647 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6648 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6649 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6651 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6652 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6655 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6656 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6658 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6660 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6661 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6663 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6671 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6672 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6673 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6674 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6675 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6677 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6680 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6681 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6682 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6683 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6684 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6685 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6687 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6688 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6689 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6690 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6691 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6692 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6693 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6696 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6697 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6698 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6699 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6700 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6702 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6704 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6705 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6706 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6708 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6710 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6711 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6712 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6715 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6716 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6718 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6719 Three changes have been made:
6721 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6722 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6723 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6724 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6725 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6727 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6730 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6731 the modified behaviour.
6737 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6740 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6741 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6743 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6744 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6745 try to track down a specific problem.
6747 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6748 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6749 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6751 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6754 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6755 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6756 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6757 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6758 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6759 some earlier ones do not.
6761 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6763 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6764 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6765 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6766 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6767 address literals are enabled, of course).
6769 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6771 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6772 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6773 by a command such as
6777 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6779 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6781 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6782 remained set. It is now erased.
6784 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6785 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6787 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6788 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6789 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6790 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6791 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6792 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6793 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6794 appropriate error code.
6796 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6797 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6798 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6799 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6800 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6801 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6803 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6804 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6805 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6807 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6808 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6809 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6810 terminate the header.
6812 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6813 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6814 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6816 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6817 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6818 (4.30/29). In particular:
6820 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6823 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6824 to write a maildirsize file.
6826 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6827 the transport, the new value overrides.
6829 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6832 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6833 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6834 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6837 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6838 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6839 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6842 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6843 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6844 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6846 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6847 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6850 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6851 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6852 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6854 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6856 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6858 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6860 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6861 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6864 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6865 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6866 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6867 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6868 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6869 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6870 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6873 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6874 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6875 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6876 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6877 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6880 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6881 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6882 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6883 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6884 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6885 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6886 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6887 cached value only when the same options are set.
6889 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6891 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6892 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6893 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6894 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6895 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6897 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6898 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6899 it is clearly obsolete.
6901 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6904 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6905 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6906 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6909 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6910 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6911 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6912 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6913 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6915 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6916 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6917 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6918 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6920 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6922 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6924 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6925 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6928 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6929 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6930 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6931 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6932 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6933 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6936 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6937 with the -f command-line option.
6939 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6940 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6941 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6942 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6943 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6944 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6946 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6947 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6950 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6951 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6952 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6953 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6954 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6955 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6956 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6957 buffer is too small.
6959 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6960 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6962 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6963 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6964 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6965 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6966 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6967 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6968 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6969 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6970 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6972 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6973 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6974 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6976 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6977 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6980 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6981 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6982 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6983 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6984 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6986 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6987 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6988 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6989 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6992 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6994 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6996 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6997 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6999 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7000 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7001 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7003 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7004 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7005 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7006 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7007 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7009 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7010 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7011 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7012 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7013 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7014 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7015 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7017 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7018 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7019 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7020 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7021 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7022 the test of how many are available.
7024 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7025 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7026 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7027 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7028 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7029 new message is started.
7031 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7032 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7034 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7035 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7037 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7038 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7039 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7042 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7043 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7044 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7045 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7046 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7047 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7048 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7050 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7051 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7052 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7053 interpreted as octal.
7055 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7058 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7059 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7060 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7061 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7062 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7063 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7065 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7066 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7067 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7068 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7070 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7071 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7072 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7073 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7075 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7076 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7079 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7080 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7082 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7084 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7085 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7086 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7087 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7089 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7090 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7091 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7092 supplied", which is not helpful.
7094 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7095 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7096 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7098 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7099 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7100 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7101 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7102 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7103 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7104 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7105 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7107 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7108 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7109 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7110 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7111 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7113 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7114 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7115 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7116 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7117 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7118 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7120 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7121 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7122 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7124 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7126 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7127 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7128 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7131 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7133 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7134 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7135 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7136 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7137 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7138 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7139 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7140 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7142 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7143 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7144 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7145 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7146 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7148 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7151 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7152 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7153 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7154 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7155 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7156 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7157 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7158 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7159 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7165 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7166 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7167 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7169 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7172 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7173 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7174 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7176 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7177 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7178 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7179 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7180 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7181 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7183 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7184 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7185 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7186 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7187 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7188 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7189 the Exim test suite.
7191 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7192 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7193 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7194 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7196 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7197 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7198 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7199 specify it in this variable.
7201 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7202 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7203 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7204 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7206 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7207 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7208 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7209 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7211 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7212 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7213 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7214 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7215 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7217 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7219 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7222 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7223 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7224 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7225 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7226 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7228 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7229 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7231 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7232 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7233 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7234 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7235 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7237 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7238 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7240 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7241 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7242 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7244 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7245 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7247 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7248 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7250 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7251 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7252 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7254 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7255 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7257 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7258 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7259 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7260 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7262 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7264 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7265 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7266 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7267 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7269 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7271 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7272 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7274 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7276 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7277 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7278 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7279 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7280 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7281 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7283 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7285 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7286 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7289 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7291 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7292 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7294 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7295 550 Sender verify failed
7297 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7298 the final line of the response.
7300 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7301 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7302 all other user lookups.
7304 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7307 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7308 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7309 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7310 result into an int without checking.
7312 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7313 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7314 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7316 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7317 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7318 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7319 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7321 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7324 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7325 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7327 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7328 to the empty sender.
7330 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7331 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7332 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7333 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7334 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7335 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7336 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7339 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7340 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7341 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7342 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7345 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7346 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7348 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7351 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7352 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7354 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7356 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7357 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7360 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7361 as soon as it is encountered.
7363 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7365 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7368 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7369 recognizes a tab character.
7371 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7372 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7373 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7374 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7376 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7378 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7381 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7383 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7385 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7386 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7389 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7390 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7391 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7392 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7393 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7395 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7396 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7398 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7399 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7400 list (.included file names were always shown).
7402 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7403 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7404 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7407 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7408 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7410 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7412 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7414 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7416 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7417 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7418 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7419 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7420 failures to open the logs.
7422 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7423 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7424 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7425 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7426 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7427 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7428 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7434 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7435 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7436 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7439 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7440 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7441 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7443 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7444 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7445 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7447 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7448 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7449 causing some misleading effects.
7451 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7452 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7453 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7455 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7456 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7457 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7458 queue-runner function directly.
7464 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7467 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7468 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7469 was always written to the default place.
7471 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7472 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7473 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7475 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7477 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7479 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7480 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7481 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7483 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7484 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7487 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7488 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7489 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7491 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7492 command line option is disabled.
7494 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7495 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7497 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7499 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7501 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7502 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7504 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7506 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7507 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7508 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7509 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7510 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7511 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7513 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7514 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7517 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7518 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7520 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7521 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7523 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7524 received was valid base64.
7526 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7527 name of the variable that was being set.
7529 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7531 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7532 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7533 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7534 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7535 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7536 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7538 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7540 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7541 nor realm was specified.
7543 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7544 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7545 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7546 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7548 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7549 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7550 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7552 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7553 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7554 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7556 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7557 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7558 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7559 some systems use these upper case variants.
7561 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7562 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7563 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7564 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7566 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7568 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7569 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7571 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7572 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7575 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7577 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7578 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7579 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7580 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7582 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7585 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7586 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7587 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7589 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7590 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7592 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7593 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7594 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7595 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7597 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7598 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7599 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7601 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7603 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7604 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7605 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7606 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7609 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7610 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7611 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7613 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7615 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7616 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7618 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7619 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7621 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7622 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7623 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7624 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7625 when emails are that large.
7632 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7633 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7635 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7636 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7637 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7639 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7640 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7641 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7643 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7644 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7645 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7646 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7647 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7649 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7650 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7651 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7652 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7653 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7656 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7657 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7658 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7659 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7660 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7661 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7662 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7663 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7664 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7665 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7666 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7667 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7668 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7669 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7671 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7672 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7675 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7676 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7677 error should be diagnosed.
7679 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7680 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7681 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7682 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7683 appeared instead of "NULL".
7685 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7686 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7687 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7688 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7689 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7690 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7693 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7694 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7695 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7701 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7702 or receiver verification errors.
7704 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7707 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7708 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7709 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7710 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7712 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7713 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7714 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7715 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7716 shouldn't happen again.
7718 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7719 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7720 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7722 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7723 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7725 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7727 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7728 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7730 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7731 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7734 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7735 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7736 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7738 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7739 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7740 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7741 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7743 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7744 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7745 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7746 to define what should happen).
7748 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7749 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7750 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7752 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7754 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7756 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7757 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7759 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7760 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7761 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7762 structure in all cases.
7764 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7765 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7766 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7767 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7769 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7770 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7773 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7774 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7776 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7777 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7779 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7780 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7781 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7783 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7784 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7785 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7787 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7788 the book and for uniformity.
7790 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7792 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7793 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7794 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7795 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7796 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7797 non-existent command as the problem.
7799 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7800 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7801 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7803 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7805 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7806 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7807 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7809 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7810 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7811 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7812 timestamps using strftime().
7814 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7815 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7817 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7818 transport-time rewrites.
7820 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7821 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7822 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7823 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7825 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7826 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7828 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7829 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7830 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7831 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7834 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7835 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7836 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7837 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7838 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7839 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7840 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7842 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7843 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7844 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7845 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7846 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7848 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7849 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7850 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7851 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7852 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7853 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7854 remaining text gets split now.
7856 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7857 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7858 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7859 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7861 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7862 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7863 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7864 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7867 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7868 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7869 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7870 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7871 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7872 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7873 passed through if needed.
7875 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7876 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7877 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7878 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7879 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7880 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7882 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7883 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7884 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7885 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7886 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7888 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7889 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7890 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7891 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7892 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7894 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7895 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7898 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7899 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7900 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7901 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7902 mayhem of various kinds.
7904 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7905 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7906 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7907 the right test for positive values.
7909 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7910 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7911 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7912 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7913 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7914 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7915 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7916 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7917 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7918 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7921 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7924 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7925 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7928 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7929 the existing equality matching.
7931 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7932 dealing with inode numbers.
7934 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7935 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7936 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7938 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7939 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7940 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7941 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7944 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7945 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7946 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7947 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7948 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7949 relay addresses has also been removed.
7951 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7953 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7954 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7955 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7957 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7958 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7959 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7960 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7961 processing applies to CR:
7963 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7964 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7966 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7967 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7968 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7969 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7971 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7972 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7973 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7975 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7976 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7977 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7978 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7979 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7980 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7983 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7986 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7987 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7988 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7989 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7992 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7994 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7996 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7998 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7999 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8000 not considered personal.
8002 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8004 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8006 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8008 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8009 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8010 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8011 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8012 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8013 header lines, and spool format errors.
8015 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8016 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8017 for more flexibility.
8019 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8020 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8021 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8023 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8026 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8027 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8028 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8029 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8030 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8031 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8032 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8033 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8034 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8036 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8037 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8038 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8039 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8040 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8041 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8042 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8044 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8045 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8046 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8048 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8049 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8050 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8051 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8052 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8053 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8054 instead of killing the process with assert().
8056 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8057 than Unicode encoding.
8059 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8060 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8061 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8062 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8064 77. Added process_log_path.
8066 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8067 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8069 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8070 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8072 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8073 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8074 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8076 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8077 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8078 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8079 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8080 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8083 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8084 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8087 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8088 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8089 they will be used during message reception.
8095 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.