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.
6 Since Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------------
9 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
10 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
11 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
12 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
14 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
15 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
16 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
17 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
18 so could be handling tainted values.
20 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
21 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
22 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
24 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
25 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
26 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
29 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
30 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
31 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
32 to align better with RFC 6125.
34 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
35 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
36 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
37 by adding a relase action in that path.
39 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
40 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
41 dynamically-created buffers.
43 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
44 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
45 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
46 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
48 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
49 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
50 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
52 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
53 excluded, not matching the documentation.
55 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
56 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
58 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
59 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
60 this was a coding error.
62 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
63 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
64 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
65 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
66 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
67 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
68 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
70 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
71 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
72 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
73 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
75 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
76 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
77 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
78 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
79 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
81 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
82 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
83 after removing the newline.
85 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
86 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
87 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
88 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
90 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
91 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
92 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
93 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
94 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
95 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
96 after removing the newline.
98 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
99 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
100 option set, which was previously used.
102 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
105 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
106 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
107 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
110 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
111 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
112 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
114 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
115 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
116 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
117 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
118 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
120 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
121 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
122 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
123 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
126 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
127 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
129 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
132 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
134 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
135 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
136 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
137 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
138 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
139 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
141 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
142 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
145 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
146 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
147 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
148 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
149 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
151 JH/42 Bug 2692: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
152 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
153 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
154 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
156 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
157 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
158 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
160 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
161 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
162 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
163 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
166 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
168 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
170 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
176 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
177 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
178 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
180 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
182 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
183 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
186 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
187 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
188 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
190 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
192 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
194 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
195 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
196 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
198 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
199 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
200 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
202 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
203 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
205 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
206 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
209 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
210 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
211 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
212 should both provide the file and set the option.
213 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
215 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
216 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
218 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
219 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
220 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
221 Authentication-Results: header.
223 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
224 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
225 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
226 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
228 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
229 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
230 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
231 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
232 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
233 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
234 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
236 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
237 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
238 copies while it is still usable.
240 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
241 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
242 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
244 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
245 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
247 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
248 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
249 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
250 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
252 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
253 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
254 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
257 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
258 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
259 - the pipe transport command
260 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
261 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
263 - paths used by single-key lookups
264 Previously this was permitted.
266 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
267 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
268 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
269 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
271 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
272 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
273 support larger malloc requests.
275 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
276 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
277 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
278 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
280 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
281 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
282 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
283 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
286 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
287 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
288 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
289 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
290 data being length-specified.
292 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
293 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
294 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
295 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
297 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
298 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
299 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
300 not being properly tracked.
302 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
303 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
304 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
305 minute could be seen.
307 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
308 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
309 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
311 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
312 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
314 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
315 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
318 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
320 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
321 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
323 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
324 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
325 filesystem as sufficient validation.
327 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
328 argument is supplied.
330 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
331 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
332 access under Exim's current working directory.
334 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
335 Previously no event was raised.
337 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
338 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
339 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
342 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
343 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
344 the size of the signature hash.
346 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
347 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
349 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
350 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
351 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
352 dropped between messages.
354 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
355 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
356 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
357 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
359 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
360 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
361 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
362 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
363 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
364 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
365 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
366 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
367 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
369 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
370 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
371 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
373 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
374 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
381 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
382 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
384 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
385 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
388 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
391 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
393 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
395 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
396 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
398 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
399 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
400 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
401 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
402 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
403 suitably configured).
405 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
406 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
408 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
409 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
412 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
413 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
415 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
416 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
417 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
418 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
421 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
422 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
423 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
425 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
428 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
429 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
431 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
432 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
433 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
434 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
437 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
438 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
439 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
440 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
443 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
444 shared (NFS) environment.
446 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
447 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
450 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
451 on some platforms for bit 31.
453 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
454 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
455 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
456 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
457 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
458 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
459 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
460 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
462 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
464 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
465 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
467 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
468 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
471 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
472 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
475 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
476 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
477 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
480 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
481 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
482 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
484 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
485 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
486 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
487 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
488 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
490 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
493 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
494 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
495 be requested on all coneections.
497 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
498 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
500 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
502 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
503 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
504 one for these; the option was ignored.
506 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
507 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
508 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
509 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
511 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
512 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
513 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
516 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
517 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
518 error ignored was made.
520 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
522 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
523 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
524 values, to catch one form of exploit.
526 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
527 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
528 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
530 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
531 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
534 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
535 them in our smtp response.
537 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
538 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
539 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
540 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
541 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
543 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
544 link count into consideration.
546 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
547 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
549 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
550 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
551 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
554 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
556 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
558 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
560 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
561 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
562 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
563 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
565 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
567 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
568 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
571 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
572 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
573 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
575 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
576 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
577 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
579 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
580 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
581 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
582 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
583 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
584 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
585 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
586 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
588 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
589 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
590 resulted in an indefinite loop.
592 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
593 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
594 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
600 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
601 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
603 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
604 non-signal-safe functions being used.
606 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
607 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
608 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
610 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
611 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
612 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
614 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
615 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
616 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
617 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
618 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
621 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
622 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
624 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
625 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
626 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
627 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
628 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
629 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
630 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
632 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
633 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
635 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
638 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
639 Previously this would segfault.
641 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
644 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
645 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
646 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
647 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
648 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
649 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
651 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
653 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
654 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
655 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
656 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
658 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
660 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
661 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
662 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
663 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
665 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
667 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
669 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
670 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
671 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
673 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
674 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
675 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
677 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
679 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
680 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
681 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
682 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
684 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
685 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
686 promised '?' replacement.
688 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
690 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
691 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
692 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
693 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
694 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
696 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
697 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
698 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
700 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
701 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
702 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
704 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
705 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
706 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
708 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
709 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
710 hope that is portable enough.
712 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
713 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
714 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
715 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
717 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
718 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
719 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
721 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
722 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
723 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
724 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
726 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
727 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
729 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
730 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
731 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
732 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
734 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
735 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
736 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
738 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
739 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
740 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
741 the previous G, M, k.
743 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
744 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
747 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
748 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
749 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
750 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
752 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
753 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
755 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
756 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
757 off past the nul-terimation.
759 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
760 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
761 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
762 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
763 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
765 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
767 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
768 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
769 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
772 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
773 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
775 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
776 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
777 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
779 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
780 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
781 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
783 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
784 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
790 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
791 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
792 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
793 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
794 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
795 be defined in redis_servers.
797 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
798 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
800 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
801 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
802 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
803 extant use locations.
805 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
806 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
808 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
809 Previously only the last row was returned.
811 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
812 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
813 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
814 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
817 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
818 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
819 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
820 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
821 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
822 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
823 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
824 Main pool for expansions.
825 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
826 active in the testsuite.
827 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
829 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
830 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
831 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
832 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
835 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
836 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
839 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
840 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
841 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
843 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
844 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
845 ClamAV interface method is removed.
847 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
848 rows affected is given instead).
850 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
851 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
853 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
854 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
855 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
856 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
857 for all multi-message initiating connections.
859 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
860 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
861 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
863 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
864 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
865 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
866 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
869 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
870 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
871 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
874 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
876 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
877 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
879 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
880 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
881 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
883 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
884 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
885 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
888 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
889 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
891 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
892 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
893 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
895 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
896 for the build is renamed.
898 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
899 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
900 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
902 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
903 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
904 result replacing the original.
906 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
907 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
908 and the resources needed to be freed.
910 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
912 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
915 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
916 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
917 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
918 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
920 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
921 length value. Previously this would segfault.
923 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
924 newer versions of the scanner.
926 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
927 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
928 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
929 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
930 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
931 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
932 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
934 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
935 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
936 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
937 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
938 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
939 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
940 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
941 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
942 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
943 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
945 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
946 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
948 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
950 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
951 allows proper process termination in container environments.
953 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
954 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
956 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
957 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
958 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
960 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
961 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
962 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
963 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
965 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
966 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
969 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
970 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
972 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
973 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
974 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
975 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
976 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
978 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
979 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
982 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
983 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
985 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
988 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
989 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
990 "bare" representation.
992 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
993 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
994 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
995 corrupted the output.
1001 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1002 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1003 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1004 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1006 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1007 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1009 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1010 This permits better logging.
1012 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1013 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1014 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1015 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1016 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1017 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1019 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1020 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1023 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1024 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1025 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1027 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1028 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1030 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1031 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1032 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1033 client, there is no benefit for these.
1034 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1035 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1036 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1039 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1040 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1042 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1043 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1044 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1046 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1047 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1049 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1050 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1051 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1052 signature and again for transmission.
1054 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1055 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1056 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1058 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1059 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1060 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1061 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1062 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1063 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1064 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1066 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1067 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1068 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1069 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1071 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1072 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1073 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1074 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1075 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1076 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1079 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1080 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1081 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1082 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1085 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1086 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1087 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1088 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1091 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1092 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1095 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1096 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1097 banner-time rejection.
1099 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1102 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1103 is the name of a transport.
1106 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1108 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1109 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1111 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1112 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1113 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1116 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1117 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1118 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1119 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1121 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1122 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1123 initial verify call returned a defer.
1125 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1126 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1128 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1129 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1131 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1132 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1134 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1135 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1137 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1138 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1141 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1142 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1144 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1145 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1146 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1148 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1149 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1150 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1151 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1153 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1154 and confused the parent.
1156 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1157 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1159 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1162 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1163 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1164 out-of-order delivery.
1166 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1167 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1168 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1171 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1172 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1175 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1176 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1177 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1179 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1180 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1181 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1182 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1183 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1184 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1186 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1187 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1188 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1190 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1191 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1192 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1194 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1195 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1196 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1197 though a different problem.
1203 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1204 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1206 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1208 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1209 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1211 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1212 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1214 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1215 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1216 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1217 before acknowledging the chunk.
1219 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1220 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1221 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1223 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1224 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1225 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1228 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1229 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1230 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1232 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1233 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1235 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1236 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1237 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1238 body hash calculated value.
1240 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1241 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1242 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1244 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1246 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1247 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1249 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1250 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1251 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1253 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1254 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1255 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1256 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1257 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1258 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1260 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1261 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1262 past that check, despite the cost.
1264 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1265 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1266 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1268 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1269 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1270 TLS library to consume.
1272 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1274 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1276 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1277 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1278 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1279 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1280 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1281 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1282 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1284 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1286 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1288 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1289 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1290 should be warning-free.
1292 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1294 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1295 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1297 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1298 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1299 general solution here.
1301 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1302 already-broken messages in the queue.
1304 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1306 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1312 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1313 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1315 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1316 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1317 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1319 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1320 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1321 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1322 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1323 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1324 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1325 if one fails this test.
1326 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1327 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1329 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1330 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1332 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1333 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1335 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1336 in rewrites and routers.
1338 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1339 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1341 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1342 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1344 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1346 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1349 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1350 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1351 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1352 connection after a verify cache hit.
1353 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1355 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1356 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1358 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1359 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1360 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1361 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1362 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1364 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1365 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1367 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1368 Previously they were not counted.
1370 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1371 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1372 that needed the lookup.
1374 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1375 distinguished as "(=".
1377 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1378 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1380 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1382 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1383 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1385 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1386 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1388 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1389 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1392 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1393 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1394 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1395 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1397 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1399 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1400 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1401 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1403 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1404 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1405 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1408 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1409 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1410 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1413 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1414 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1415 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1417 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1418 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1421 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1423 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1424 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1426 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1427 are not in the system include path.
1429 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1430 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1431 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1432 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1434 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1435 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1436 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1438 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1440 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1441 an incoming connection.
1443 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1446 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1447 fallback to "prime256v1".
1449 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1450 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1456 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1457 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1458 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1459 client dropping the TLS connection.
1461 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1462 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1464 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1465 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1466 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1467 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1470 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1471 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1472 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1473 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1474 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1475 check on the next write.
1477 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1478 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1479 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1480 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1481 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1483 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1484 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1486 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1487 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1488 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1490 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1491 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1492 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1493 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1495 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1496 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1498 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1499 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1501 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1502 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1503 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1506 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1508 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1510 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1512 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1513 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1515 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1516 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1518 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1520 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1521 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1523 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1525 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1526 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1528 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1530 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1531 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1532 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1533 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1534 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1535 they will retry in-clear.
1536 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1537 at installation time.
1539 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1540 with the $config_file variable.
1542 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1543 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1544 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1545 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1546 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1548 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1549 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1550 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1551 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1552 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1554 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1556 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1557 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1558 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1559 list order is no longer honoured.
1561 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1562 for DKIM processing.
1564 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1565 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1567 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1568 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1569 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1570 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1572 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1573 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1575 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1576 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1578 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1579 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1581 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1583 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1584 cached by the daemon.
1586 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1587 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1589 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1590 keys are given for lookup.
1592 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1593 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1594 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1595 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1597 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1598 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1599 server-side so match that on older versions.
1601 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1602 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1603 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1605 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1606 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1608 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1609 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1610 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1611 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1612 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1613 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1614 initial truncated version.
1616 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1618 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1620 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1621 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1623 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1625 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1627 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1628 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1631 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1632 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1635 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1636 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1638 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1639 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1642 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1643 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1644 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1646 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1647 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1648 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1649 extraction. Accept either.
1655 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1658 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1660 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1663 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1664 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1665 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1666 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1668 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1669 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1670 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1672 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1673 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1674 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1677 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1680 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1681 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1682 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1683 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1684 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1686 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1687 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1688 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1690 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1692 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1693 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1695 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1696 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1698 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1701 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1702 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1704 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1705 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1706 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1708 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1709 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1710 specify a port-range.
1712 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1713 timeout value per server.
1715 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1716 now have the list separator specified.
1718 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1721 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1724 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1726 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1727 rather than the verbs used.
1729 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1730 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1732 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1734 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1735 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1737 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1738 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1740 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1741 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1743 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1745 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1747 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1748 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1749 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1750 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1752 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1754 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1755 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1757 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1758 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1760 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1762 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1764 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1766 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1767 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1769 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1770 added for tls authenticator.
1772 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1778 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1779 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1780 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1781 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1782 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1783 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1784 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1786 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1787 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1788 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1789 function when detected.
1791 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1792 cause callback expansion.
1794 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1795 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1796 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1797 instead of bool when processing it.
1799 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1800 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1802 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1804 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1806 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1808 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1809 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1811 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1812 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1813 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1814 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1815 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1816 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1818 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1819 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1822 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1823 version 3.3.6 or later.
1825 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1826 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1827 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1828 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1829 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1830 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1833 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1834 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1836 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1837 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1838 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1841 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1842 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1843 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1845 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1846 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1848 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1849 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1852 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1854 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1855 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1857 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1858 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1861 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1863 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1866 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1867 output list separator was used.
1872 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1873 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1876 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1877 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1879 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1881 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1882 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1888 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1890 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1891 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1892 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1893 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1894 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1895 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1897 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1898 utilities have not been installed.
1900 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1901 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1903 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1904 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1906 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1907 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1908 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1909 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1911 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1913 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1914 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1916 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1919 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1921 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1922 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1923 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1925 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1926 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1927 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1928 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1929 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1930 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1932 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1934 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1935 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1937 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1940 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1942 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1944 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1945 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1947 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1948 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1950 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1952 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1954 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1955 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1957 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1958 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1959 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1961 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1962 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1963 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1966 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1968 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1969 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1972 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1973 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1976 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1977 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1979 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1980 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1982 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1984 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1985 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1986 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1988 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1989 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1991 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1992 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1995 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1996 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1997 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1999 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2001 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2002 Christian Aistleitner.
2004 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2006 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2007 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2009 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2010 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2012 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2013 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2015 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2016 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2018 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2019 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2021 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2022 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2023 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2025 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2027 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2028 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2031 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2033 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2034 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2041 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2043 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2044 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2046 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2049 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2050 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2053 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2055 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2056 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2057 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2058 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2059 using channel bindings instead).
2061 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2062 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2063 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2064 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2065 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2068 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2070 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2072 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2073 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2075 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2076 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2077 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2079 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2081 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2083 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2084 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2086 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2088 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2090 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2092 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2093 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2095 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2097 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2098 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2101 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2102 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2104 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2105 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2108 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2110 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2112 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2113 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2115 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2118 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2119 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2121 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2122 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2124 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2126 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2128 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2131 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2134 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2136 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2137 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2138 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2139 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2141 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2143 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2144 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2145 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2146 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2149 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2150 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2151 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2153 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2154 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2155 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2156 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2158 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2159 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2160 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2161 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2162 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2163 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2164 delivery, as in LMTP.
2166 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2167 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2169 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2171 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2175 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2176 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2177 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2178 username as equal to the username.
2180 This change corrects that bug.
2182 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2183 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2184 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2186 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2188 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2189 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2190 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2191 NULL dereference and crash.
2193 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2195 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2196 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2197 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2199 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2201 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2202 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2203 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2204 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2205 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2206 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2207 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2208 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2209 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2210 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2211 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2213 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2214 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2216 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2217 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2220 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2221 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2222 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2223 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2224 an empty string is now equivalent.
2226 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2227 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2228 not performing validation itself.
2230 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2231 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2233 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2236 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2238 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2239 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2240 other false fix of the same issue.
2241 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2244 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2245 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2247 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2248 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2249 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2251 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2252 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2253 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2255 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2257 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2259 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2260 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2262 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2265 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2266 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2267 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2268 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2269 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2271 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2272 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2274 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2275 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2278 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2279 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2280 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2281 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2283 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2285 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2286 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2287 from multiple comments on this bug.
2289 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2291 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2292 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2295 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2296 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2298 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2299 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2305 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2307 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2313 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2314 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2315 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2317 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2319 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2322 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2324 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2326 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2328 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2329 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2331 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2332 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2334 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2335 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2337 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2338 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2339 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2341 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2343 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2344 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2346 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2348 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2350 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2351 non-compliant senders.
2352 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2354 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2355 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2356 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2358 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2359 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2360 in spool file corruption.
2362 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2363 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2364 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2367 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2368 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2369 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2371 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2372 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2374 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2376 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2378 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2380 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2381 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2382 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2384 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2385 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2386 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2387 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2389 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2390 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2392 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2393 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2394 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2395 resolver implementation change.
2397 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2398 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2400 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2402 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2404 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2405 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2407 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2408 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2410 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2411 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2413 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2414 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2415 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2416 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2417 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2419 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2421 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2422 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2423 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2425 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2427 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2428 read-only, out of scope).
2429 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2431 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2432 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2433 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2434 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2436 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2438 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2439 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2440 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2441 real issues in debug logging.
2443 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2444 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2446 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2447 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2448 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2450 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2451 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2452 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2455 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2456 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2458 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2459 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2460 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2461 needs to override this, it can.
2463 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2464 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2465 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2467 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2468 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2469 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2470 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2472 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2478 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2479 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2481 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2483 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2486 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2487 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2489 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2490 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2491 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2493 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2494 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2495 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2496 not safe for signals.
2498 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2499 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2500 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2501 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2504 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2506 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2507 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2508 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2509 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2510 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2512 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2513 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2514 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2515 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2516 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2517 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2519 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2520 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2521 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2522 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2524 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2525 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2526 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2527 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2529 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2530 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2531 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2532 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2533 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2534 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2535 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2536 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2537 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2539 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2540 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2541 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2542 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2544 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2545 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2546 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2547 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2548 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2549 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2550 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2551 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2552 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2553 details in the main documentation.
2555 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2557 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2559 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2560 repository when doing development or release builds.
2562 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2563 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2565 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2566 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2569 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2571 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2572 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2574 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2575 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2577 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2578 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2580 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2581 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2583 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2584 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2586 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2588 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2591 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2592 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2593 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2595 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2597 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2599 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2600 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2606 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2608 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2609 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2611 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2613 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2615 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2618 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2619 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2621 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2622 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2624 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2625 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2627 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2630 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2631 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2633 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2634 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2635 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2636 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2638 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2639 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2645 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2648 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2649 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2650 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2652 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2653 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2655 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2656 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2657 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2659 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2660 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2662 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2663 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2665 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2666 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2668 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2669 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2671 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2672 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2674 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2677 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2678 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2680 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2681 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2683 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2684 SQL string expansion failure details.
2685 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2687 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2688 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2690 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2691 extern declarations in function scope.
2692 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2694 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2695 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2696 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2699 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2700 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2702 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2703 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2705 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2706 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2708 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2709 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2711 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2712 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2715 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2717 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2719 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2720 Patch by Simon Arlott
2722 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2723 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2729 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2730 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2732 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2733 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2735 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2737 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2738 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2739 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2741 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2742 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2743 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2745 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2746 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2747 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2748 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2750 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2751 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2752 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2753 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2755 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2756 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2757 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2760 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2763 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2764 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2765 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2766 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2767 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2773 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2774 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2775 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2777 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2778 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2780 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2782 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2784 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2786 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2788 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2790 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2791 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2792 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2793 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2795 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2796 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2797 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2798 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2799 more caution in buffer sizes.
2801 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2803 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2805 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2807 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2809 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2811 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2813 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2815 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2816 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2817 ignore trailing whitespace.
2819 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2821 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2824 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2825 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2827 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2828 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2829 Notification from John Horne.
2831 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2834 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2835 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2838 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2841 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2842 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2843 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2845 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2846 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2847 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2850 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2851 option (effectively making it always true).
2853 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2854 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2856 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2857 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2859 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2860 run-time user, instead of root.
2862 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2863 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2865 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2866 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2869 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2870 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2871 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2873 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2875 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2881 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2882 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2885 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2886 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2889 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2890 Patch from Alain Williams
2892 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2894 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2895 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2897 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2898 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2900 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2902 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2904 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2905 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2907 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2909 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2911 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2912 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2913 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2915 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2916 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2918 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2919 Patch by Simon Arlott
2921 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2922 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2928 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2930 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2932 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2934 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2936 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2942 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2943 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2945 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2946 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2949 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2950 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2951 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2953 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2954 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2956 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2957 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2958 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2959 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2961 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2962 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2963 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2965 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2967 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2969 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2970 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2972 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2974 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2975 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2976 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2977 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2979 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2980 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2982 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2984 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2986 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2987 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2989 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2990 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2992 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2993 that they are available at delivery time.
2995 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2997 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2998 incoming_port log selectors.
3000 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3001 setting expands to an empty string.
3003 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3004 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3006 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3007 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3009 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3010 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3012 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3013 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3015 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3016 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3018 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3019 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3021 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3023 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3024 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3026 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3027 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3029 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3031 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3032 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3034 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3036 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3038 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3041 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3042 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3044 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3045 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3047 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3048 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3050 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3051 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3053 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3054 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3056 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3057 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3059 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3060 plus update to original patch.
3062 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3064 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3065 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3067 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3069 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3071 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3073 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3075 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3076 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3078 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3079 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3081 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3082 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3084 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3085 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3087 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3089 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3091 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3093 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3099 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3100 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3101 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3103 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3104 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3105 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3106 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3107 build errors in sieve.c.
3109 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3110 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3111 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3113 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3115 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3117 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3119 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3125 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3127 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3128 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3129 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3130 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3131 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3132 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3133 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3134 for iplsearch lookups.
3136 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3137 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3138 previously such lookups could never work.
3140 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3141 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3142 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3144 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3147 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3148 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3149 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3150 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3151 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3152 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3154 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3155 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3157 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3158 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3159 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3160 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3161 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3162 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3164 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3167 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3169 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3170 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3173 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3174 by clients under certain conditions.
3176 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3177 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3179 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3181 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3182 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3184 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3186 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3188 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3190 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3191 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3193 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3195 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3196 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3198 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3200 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3202 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3203 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3204 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3205 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3207 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3208 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3209 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3211 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3212 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3214 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3216 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3218 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3220 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3221 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3222 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3228 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3229 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3232 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3233 issue a MAIL command.
3235 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3237 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3239 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3240 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3241 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3242 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3243 item. This has been fixed.
3245 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3246 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3248 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3249 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3251 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3252 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3253 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3255 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3257 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3258 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3259 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3260 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3261 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3263 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3264 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3265 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3267 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3268 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3269 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3270 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3272 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3274 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3276 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3277 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3278 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3279 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3280 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3282 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3284 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3285 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3286 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3289 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3291 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3293 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3295 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3297 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3299 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3300 no_callout_flush is set.
3302 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3303 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3304 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3307 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3309 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3310 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3311 other ACL rejections are.
3313 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3314 with slight modification.
3316 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3317 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3319 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3320 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3323 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3324 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3326 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3328 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3329 expansion side effects.
3331 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3332 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3333 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3336 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3337 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3338 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3340 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3341 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3342 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3343 were accidentally chopped off.
3345 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3346 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3347 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3348 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3349 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3350 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3351 pipelining has not been advertised.
3353 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3355 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3356 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3357 This has been fixed.
3359 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3360 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3361 reported on Solaris.
3363 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3364 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3365 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3366 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3367 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3368 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3369 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3371 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3374 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3376 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3378 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3379 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3380 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3381 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3382 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3383 criteria to be more general.
3385 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3386 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3387 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3388 host_all_ignored option.
3390 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3391 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3392 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3393 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3394 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3395 is what is supposed to happen).
3397 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3398 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3399 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3400 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3401 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3404 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3405 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3406 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3407 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3408 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3409 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3412 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3414 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3415 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3417 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3418 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3420 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3422 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3424 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3425 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3426 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3427 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3428 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3429 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3430 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3431 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3432 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3433 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3434 least in a lot of common cases.
3436 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3437 advertised in response to EHLO.
3443 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3444 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3446 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3447 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3449 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3450 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3451 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3453 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3454 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3455 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3456 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3457 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3463 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3464 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3467 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3468 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3469 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3471 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3472 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3473 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3474 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3475 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3476 rather than extend the field.
3482 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3483 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3484 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3485 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3488 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3489 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3490 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3492 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3493 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3494 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3496 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3497 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3498 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3501 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3502 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3503 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3504 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3505 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3506 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3507 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3508 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3509 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3510 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3511 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3513 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3516 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3517 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3518 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3519 ignores EPIPE as well.
3521 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3522 (quoted-printable decoding).
3524 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3525 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3527 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3529 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3531 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3533 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3534 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3536 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3539 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3540 miscellaneous code fixes
3542 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3545 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3546 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3547 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3548 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3549 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3550 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3551 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3552 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3554 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3555 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3556 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3557 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3559 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3560 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3561 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3562 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3563 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3564 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3565 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3566 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3567 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3569 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3572 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3573 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3574 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3575 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3576 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3577 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3578 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3579 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3581 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3582 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3585 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3586 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3587 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3588 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3589 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3590 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3591 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3592 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3593 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3594 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3595 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3596 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3597 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3599 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3600 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3601 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3602 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3603 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3604 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3605 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3607 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3608 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3609 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3610 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3611 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3612 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3613 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3614 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3615 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3616 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3618 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3619 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3620 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3621 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3622 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3624 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3625 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3626 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3627 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3628 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3629 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3630 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3632 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3633 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3634 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3635 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3636 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3637 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3640 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3641 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3642 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3645 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3646 if any retry times were supplied.
3648 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3649 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3650 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3652 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3654 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3656 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3657 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3658 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3659 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3660 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3661 before) are ignored.
3663 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3664 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3666 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3667 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3668 committing the later change.]
3670 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3671 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3672 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3673 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3674 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3675 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3676 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3677 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3678 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3680 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3681 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3682 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3683 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3684 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3685 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3686 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3687 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3688 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3690 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3691 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3692 hammering the server.
3694 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3695 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3697 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3699 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3700 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3701 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3703 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3704 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3705 one case where this was not true.
3707 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3708 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3709 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3710 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3713 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3714 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3715 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3716 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3717 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3718 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3719 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3720 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3721 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3724 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3725 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3726 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3727 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3729 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3730 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3732 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3733 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3734 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3736 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3738 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3740 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3742 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3743 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3744 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3745 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3747 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3748 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3750 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3751 be meaningful with "accept".
3753 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3754 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3756 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3757 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3758 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3760 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3761 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3762 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3763 there is data to show.
3764 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3766 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3767 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3768 as well as the number of messages.
3770 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3771 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3772 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3774 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3775 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3776 have a flag are now skipped.
3778 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3779 Added the -emptyok flag.
3781 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3782 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3784 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3785 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3786 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3788 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3791 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3792 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3794 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3796 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3797 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3799 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3801 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3802 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3803 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3804 contravention of the specifications.
3806 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3807 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3808 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3810 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3811 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3812 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3814 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3816 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3817 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3818 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3819 some point in the past.
3821 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3822 transport during callout processing was broken.
3824 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3825 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3827 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3828 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3830 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3831 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3833 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3839 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3840 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3842 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3843 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3844 there is data to show.
3845 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3847 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3848 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3850 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3851 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3853 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3854 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3856 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3857 submissions from trusted users.
3859 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3860 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3862 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3863 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3864 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3865 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3866 there is now a framework to start from.
3868 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3869 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3870 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3872 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3874 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3876 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3878 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3879 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3880 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3882 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3885 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3886 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3887 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3889 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3890 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3891 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3894 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3895 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3896 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3897 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3898 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3900 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3901 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3903 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3905 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3906 operations in malware.c.
3908 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3911 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3912 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3913 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3916 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3917 statements to "add_header".
3919 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3920 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3922 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3923 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3926 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3930 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3931 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3932 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3935 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3936 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3938 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3939 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3941 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3942 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3943 any possible encoding problems.
3945 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3946 but not after initializing Perl.
3948 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3949 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3950 apparently, which is not desirable.
3952 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3955 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3958 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3960 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3961 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3962 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3963 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3965 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3966 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3967 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3969 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3970 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3971 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3974 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3975 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3976 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3977 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3978 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3984 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3985 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3987 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3990 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3991 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3992 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3993 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3994 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3995 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3996 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3997 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4000 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4002 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4003 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4004 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4006 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4007 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4008 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4011 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4012 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4014 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4015 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4016 option (which defaults to 0600).
4018 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4020 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4021 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4022 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4023 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4024 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4025 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4026 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4028 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4034 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4035 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4036 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4037 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4038 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4039 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4042 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4043 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4045 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4047 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4048 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4049 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4050 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4051 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4054 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4055 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4057 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4058 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4059 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4060 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4061 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4063 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4064 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4065 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4066 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4068 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4069 be the same on different OS.
4071 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4074 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4075 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4077 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4080 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4081 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4082 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4083 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4084 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4085 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4088 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4089 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4090 when Exim was called.
4092 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4093 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4095 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4096 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4097 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4098 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4100 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4101 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4102 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4103 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4106 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4107 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4108 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4110 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4111 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4112 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4114 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4117 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4118 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4119 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4120 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4121 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4122 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4123 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4124 values from the SRV records were lost.
4126 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4127 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4128 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4130 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4131 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4132 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4134 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4135 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4136 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4137 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4138 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4139 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4140 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4141 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4142 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4143 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4145 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4146 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4147 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4149 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4150 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4152 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4153 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4154 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4155 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4158 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4159 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4160 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4162 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4163 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4164 PH/23 above applies.
4166 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4167 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4168 (for which there is an explicit test).
4170 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4172 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4173 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4174 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4175 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4176 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4178 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4179 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4180 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4181 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4183 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4184 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4185 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4187 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4189 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4191 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4192 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4193 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4195 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4196 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4197 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4198 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4199 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4201 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4202 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4203 the message gets confusing).
4205 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4206 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4207 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4208 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4210 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4211 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4212 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4213 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4216 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4217 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4218 the different processes.
4220 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4222 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4224 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4225 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4227 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4228 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4230 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4231 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4232 messages matching specified criteria.
4234 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4236 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4237 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4239 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4240 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4241 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4242 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4243 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4244 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4245 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4246 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4247 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4248 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4250 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4251 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4252 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4254 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4256 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4257 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4258 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4259 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4260 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4261 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4262 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4265 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4266 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4268 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4270 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4272 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4274 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4275 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4276 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4277 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4278 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4279 size of the count of files.
4281 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4283 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4286 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4287 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4288 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4289 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4291 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4292 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4293 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4295 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4296 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4297 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4298 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4299 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4301 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4302 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4304 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4305 will now be deprecated.
4307 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4309 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4310 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4311 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4313 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4314 with very large, slow to parse queues
4316 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4318 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4320 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4321 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4322 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4325 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4326 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4327 Sieve code now uses this.
4329 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4330 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4332 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4333 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4335 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4337 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4338 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4339 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4340 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4341 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4343 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4344 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4345 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4346 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4348 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4350 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4352 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4353 is preferred over IPv4.
4355 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4356 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4357 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4358 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4359 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4360 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4361 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4363 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4364 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4365 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4367 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4369 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4370 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4371 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4372 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4373 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4374 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4375 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4376 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4377 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4378 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4379 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4381 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4382 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4383 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4389 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4391 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4392 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4394 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4395 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4396 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4398 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4400 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4403 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4406 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4407 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4408 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4411 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4412 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4414 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4415 inside the third argument.
4417 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4418 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4421 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4422 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4424 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4425 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4427 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4429 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4430 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4433 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4435 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4436 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4437 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4438 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4439 identical. For example:
4441 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4443 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4444 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4445 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4447 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4448 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4449 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4450 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4452 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4453 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4454 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4457 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4459 o fixes some comments
4460 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4461 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4462 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4463 and documents the missing references header update
4467 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4468 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4471 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4472 Electronic Mail") by including:
4474 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4476 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4477 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4478 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4479 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4480 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4482 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4484 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4486 The auto-replied keyword:
4488 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4489 message by an automatic process,
4491 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4493 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4494 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4496 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4497 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4500 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4501 to the default Received: header definition.
4503 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4505 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4506 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4507 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4509 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4510 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4511 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4513 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4514 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4515 and treats the condition as false.
4517 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4519 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4520 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4521 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4522 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4523 not changing the active code.
4525 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4526 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4528 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4529 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4531 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4534 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4535 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4536 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4537 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4538 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4539 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4540 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4541 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4542 the text comparison.
4544 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4545 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4546 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4547 The same fix has been applied.
4553 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4554 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4557 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4558 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4560 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4562 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4563 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4564 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4565 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4566 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4568 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4569 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4570 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4571 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4574 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4582 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4583 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4585 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4587 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4589 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4590 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4591 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4593 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4594 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4595 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4597 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4598 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4601 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4602 ${stat: expansion item.
4604 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4605 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4607 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4608 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4611 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4613 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4616 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4617 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4619 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4621 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4622 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4623 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4624 the end of the subprocess.
4626 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4627 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4628 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4629 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4630 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4632 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4634 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4636 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4637 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4639 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4641 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4643 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4644 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4647 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4649 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4650 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4651 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4653 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4654 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4656 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4657 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4659 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4660 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4662 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4663 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4665 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4666 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4667 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4668 contributed by a Radius user.
4670 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4671 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4673 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4674 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4676 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4679 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4680 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4683 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4684 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4685 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4686 header lines when this was not necessary.
4688 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4690 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4691 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4692 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4695 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4698 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4699 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4700 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4701 return code was incorrect.
4703 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4705 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4707 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4709 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4711 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4712 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4713 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4714 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4715 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4718 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4720 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4721 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4722 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4723 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4724 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4725 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4726 which is clearly wrong.
4728 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4730 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4731 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4732 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4735 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4736 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4738 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4740 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4741 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4743 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4744 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4746 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4747 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4749 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4750 recipients, not senders.
4752 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4753 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4755 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4757 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4759 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4760 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4761 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4762 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4764 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4766 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4767 clock is set back in time.
4769 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4770 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4772 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4773 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4775 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4776 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4779 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4780 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4783 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4786 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4788 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4789 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4790 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4792 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4793 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4794 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4795 helo verification defer as a failure.
4797 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4798 actual error message.
4804 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4806 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4807 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4808 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4809 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4811 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4813 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4814 can still be requested.
4816 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4817 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4818 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4819 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4821 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4822 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4823 circumstances, but probably never did.
4825 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4826 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4827 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4830 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4832 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4833 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4835 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4837 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4839 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4840 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4841 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4842 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4843 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4844 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4846 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4847 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4848 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4849 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4850 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4851 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4853 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4854 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4856 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4857 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4859 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4860 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4862 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4864 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4866 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4868 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4870 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4872 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4874 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4876 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4877 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4878 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4880 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4881 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4882 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4883 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4885 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4886 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4887 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4889 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4890 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4891 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4892 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4894 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4895 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4898 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4899 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4900 should work with maildirs and everything.
4902 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4903 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4905 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4908 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4909 function for BDB 4.3.
4911 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4913 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4914 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4917 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4918 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4919 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4920 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4921 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4922 formatting function string_vformat().
4924 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4925 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4926 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4927 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4928 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4929 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4930 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4931 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4933 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4934 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4937 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4938 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4940 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4941 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4942 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4943 test. It is now used for both.
4945 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4946 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4947 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4948 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4949 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4950 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4952 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4953 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4954 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4957 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4958 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4959 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4961 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4962 experimental DomainKeys support:
4964 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4965 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4966 the control was given.
4968 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4970 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4972 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4974 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4975 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4976 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4979 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4980 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4981 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4982 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4983 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4984 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4987 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4988 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4989 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4990 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4991 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4992 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4994 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4995 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4996 do -d+all out of habit.
4998 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4999 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5002 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5003 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5004 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5005 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5006 record types that Exim uses.
5008 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5009 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5010 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5011 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5012 non-existent file that was broken.
5014 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5015 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5017 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5018 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5019 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5021 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5023 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5024 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5025 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5026 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5027 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5030 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5031 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5032 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5033 at a slight CPU cost.
5035 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5036 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5038 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5041 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5043 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5044 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5050 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5051 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5053 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5055 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5057 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5058 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5060 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5061 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5062 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5063 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5064 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5065 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5068 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5069 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5070 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5071 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5074 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5075 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5076 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5077 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5078 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5079 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5080 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5083 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5084 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5086 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5087 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5088 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5089 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5090 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5091 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5093 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5094 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5095 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5096 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5098 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5101 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5102 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5104 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5105 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5106 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5107 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5110 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5112 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5113 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5115 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5116 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5117 to what was transported.)
5119 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5121 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5122 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5123 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5124 spamd_address settings.
5126 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5127 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5128 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5129 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5130 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5132 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5134 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5135 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5136 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5137 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5138 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5140 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5141 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5143 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5144 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5145 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5146 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5147 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5148 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5149 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5152 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5153 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5154 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5155 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5156 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5157 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5158 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5161 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5163 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5164 driver and ACL definitions.
5166 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5167 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5169 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5170 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5171 understands it better than I do:
5173 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5174 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5176 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5177 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5178 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5179 => three warnings about OTP not working
5180 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5182 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5183 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5184 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5185 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5187 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5188 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5190 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5191 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5192 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5194 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5195 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5198 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5199 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5202 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5203 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5204 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5206 warn !verify = sender
5207 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5209 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5210 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5212 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5214 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5215 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5217 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5218 nomenclature these days.)
5220 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5221 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5223 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5224 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5225 . First host does not offer TLS;
5226 . First host accepts first address;
5227 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5228 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5229 . Second host accepts second address.
5230 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5231 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5234 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5235 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5236 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5237 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5238 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5240 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5241 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5243 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5244 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5246 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5247 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5248 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5250 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5251 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5254 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5256 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5257 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5258 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5259 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5260 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5261 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5262 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5264 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5265 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5266 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5267 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5268 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5270 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5271 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5274 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5275 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5276 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5277 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5278 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5279 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5281 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5283 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5284 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5285 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5286 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5287 printable escape sequences.
5289 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5290 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5293 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5294 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5297 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5298 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5299 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5300 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5301 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5303 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5304 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5305 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5307 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5309 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5310 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5313 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5314 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5315 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5316 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5317 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5318 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5319 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5320 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5321 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5324 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5325 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5326 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5327 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5331 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5332 ----------------------------------------
5334 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5335 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5336 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5337 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5338 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5339 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5342 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5343 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5344 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5345 historical information.
5351 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5353 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5354 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5356 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5357 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5360 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5361 filter fails to execute.
5363 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5364 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5365 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5366 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5367 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5369 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5371 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5372 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5373 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5374 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5376 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5377 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5378 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5379 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5380 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5382 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5384 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5386 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5387 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5388 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5389 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5391 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5392 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5393 sender verification.
5395 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5396 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5398 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5400 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5403 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5404 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5406 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5407 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5409 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5410 information about exactly what failed.
5412 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5414 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5415 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5416 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5418 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5419 It is now set to "smtps".
5421 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5422 ignore_target_hosts.
5424 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5425 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5426 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5427 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5430 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5431 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5432 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5434 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5435 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5436 wake it up if nothing else does.
5438 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5439 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5440 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5443 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5444 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5446 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5448 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5449 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5450 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5451 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5452 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5453 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5454 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5455 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5457 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5458 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5459 than one IP address.
5461 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5462 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5463 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5464 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5466 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5467 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5468 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5469 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5470 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5473 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5474 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5475 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5476 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5478 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5479 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5482 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5483 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5484 $sender_host_address.
5486 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5487 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5488 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5489 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5490 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5493 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5495 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5496 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5498 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5499 just the host names, not the priorities.
5501 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5502 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5503 controlled by a keyword.
5505 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5506 multiple records are returned.
5508 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5509 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5512 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5514 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5515 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5517 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5518 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5519 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5521 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5523 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5525 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5527 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5528 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5529 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5530 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5531 because the tests only now provoked it.
5533 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5534 (this can affect the format of dates).
5536 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5537 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5538 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5539 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5541 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5543 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5544 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5545 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5546 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5548 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5549 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5550 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5552 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5555 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5556 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5557 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5558 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5559 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5560 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5563 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5564 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5565 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5568 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5569 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5570 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5572 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5573 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5574 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5575 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5576 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5577 so I produce this patch..."
5579 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5580 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5583 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5584 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5585 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5586 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5589 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5591 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5592 long debug lines gets shown.
5594 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5595 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5597 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5599 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5600 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5601 of $primary_hostname.
5603 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5604 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5605 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5606 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5607 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5608 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5609 by change 4.50/55 above.
5611 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5612 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5613 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5614 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5615 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5616 running as the user.
5619 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5620 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5621 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5624 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5625 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5627 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5628 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5629 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5630 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5631 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5633 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5634 This has been fixed.
5636 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5637 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5638 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5639 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5642 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5644 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5645 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5646 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5647 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5649 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5650 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5652 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5653 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5654 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5656 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5657 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5658 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5661 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5662 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5663 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5665 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5666 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5667 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5668 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5670 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5671 during host lookups.
5673 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5674 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5676 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5678 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5679 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5680 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5681 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5682 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5685 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5686 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5688 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5689 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5690 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5692 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5694 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5695 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5696 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5697 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5698 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5699 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5702 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5703 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5704 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5705 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5706 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5708 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5711 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5713 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5714 "vacation" handling.
5716 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5717 OS variants using glibc.
5719 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5722 ----------------------------------------------------
5723 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5724 ----------------------------------------------------
5730 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5731 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5734 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5735 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5738 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5739 filter fails to execute.
5741 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5742 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5743 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5744 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5745 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5747 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5748 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5749 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5750 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5752 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5753 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5754 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5755 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5756 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5758 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5760 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5761 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5762 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5763 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5765 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5766 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5767 sender verification.
5769 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5770 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5772 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5773 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5775 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5776 ignore_target_hosts.
5778 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5779 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5780 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5781 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5784 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5785 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5786 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5788 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5789 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5790 wake it up if nothing else does.
5792 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5793 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5794 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5797 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5798 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5800 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5802 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5803 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5806 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5807 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5810 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5811 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5812 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5813 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5814 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5817 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5818 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5821 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5822 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5823 $sender_host_address.
5825 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5827 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5828 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5829 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5831 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5834 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5835 (this can affect the format of dates).
5837 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5838 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5839 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5840 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5842 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5843 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5844 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5846 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5847 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5848 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5849 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5851 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5852 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5853 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5855 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5858 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5859 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5860 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5861 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5862 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5863 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5866 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5867 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5868 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5869 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5872 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5873 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5874 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5875 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5876 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5877 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5878 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5880 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5881 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5882 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5883 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5884 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5885 running as the user.
5888 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5889 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5890 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5893 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5894 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5895 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5896 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5897 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5899 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5900 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5901 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5902 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5905 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5906 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5907 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5908 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5909 because the tests only now provoked it.
5915 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5916 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5917 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5918 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5919 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5920 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5921 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5923 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5924 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5927 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5929 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5931 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5932 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5935 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5936 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5937 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5938 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5939 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5941 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5942 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5944 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5946 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5948 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5951 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5952 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5954 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5955 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5956 affecting debugging statements).
5958 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5960 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5961 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5962 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5963 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5964 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5965 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5966 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5967 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5968 after the received time, and all would be well.
5970 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5971 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5972 condition in an expansion string.
5974 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5976 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5977 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5978 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5979 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5980 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5981 job under whatever limits there are.
5983 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5985 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5988 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5989 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5990 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5991 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5994 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5995 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5996 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5997 binary data in such strings.
5999 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6001 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6002 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6003 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6004 failure, which is pointless.
6006 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6008 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6010 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6011 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6012 Sender: header lines.
6014 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6015 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6016 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6018 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6019 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6020 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6021 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6022 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6025 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6026 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6027 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6028 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6029 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6031 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6032 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6033 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6036 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6037 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6039 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6040 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6042 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6044 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6046 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6048 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6051 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6053 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6055 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6056 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6057 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6058 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6060 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6061 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6067 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6068 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6069 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6071 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6072 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6073 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6074 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6075 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6076 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6078 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6079 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6080 verification failure".
6082 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6083 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6084 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6085 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6087 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6088 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6089 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6090 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6091 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6092 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6093 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6094 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6095 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6096 treated as a timeout.
6098 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6099 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6100 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6101 not set for Exim filters).
6103 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6104 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6105 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6107 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6109 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6110 try to make them clearer.
6112 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6113 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6115 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6117 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6119 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6120 only the Cygwin environment.
6122 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6123 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6124 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6125 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6126 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6128 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6129 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6130 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6131 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6132 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6133 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6134 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6136 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6137 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6139 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6141 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6142 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6143 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6145 To: susanne@some.where
6147 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6148 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6149 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6150 of addresses in From: header lines).
6152 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6153 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6154 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6156 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6157 treated as non-personal.
6159 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6160 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6162 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6164 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6166 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6167 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6168 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6170 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6171 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6173 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6174 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6175 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6176 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6177 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6178 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6180 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6181 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6182 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6183 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6184 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6185 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6186 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6187 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6189 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6191 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6192 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6194 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6195 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6196 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6198 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6199 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6201 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6202 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6203 rather than long int.
6205 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6207 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6213 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6214 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6215 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6216 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6217 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6218 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6224 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6225 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6227 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6228 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6229 socklen_t is defined.
6231 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6234 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6237 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6238 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6239 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6240 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6241 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6243 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6244 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6245 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6246 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6248 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6249 of flapping under certain conditions.
6251 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6252 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6253 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6255 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6257 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6259 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6260 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6261 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6262 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6264 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6265 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6266 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6267 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6268 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6269 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6270 preserved with the message after it was received.
6272 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6273 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6274 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6275 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6276 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6277 test suite worked just fine.
6279 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6280 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6281 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6283 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6284 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6287 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6288 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6289 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6290 does not fully solve it.
6292 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6293 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6294 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6295 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6296 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6298 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6299 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6300 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6302 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6303 string, for example:
6305 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6307 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6308 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6309 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6310 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6311 the routers could not see them.
6313 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6314 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6316 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6317 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6320 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6321 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6322 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6323 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6324 that needed quoting.
6326 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6327 was not being matched caselessly.
6329 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6332 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6333 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6334 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6335 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6336 when use_sender is false.
6338 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6340 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6342 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6344 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6345 the configuration file.
6347 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6348 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6350 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6352 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6353 bytes in the message body.
6355 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6356 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6359 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6361 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6363 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6364 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6365 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6366 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6373 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6374 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6376 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6377 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6378 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6379 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6380 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6382 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6383 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6385 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6386 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6387 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6389 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6390 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6391 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6393 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6396 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6397 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6398 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6399 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6400 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6401 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6402 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6408 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6409 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6410 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6411 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6412 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6413 default (and expected) setting.
6415 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6416 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6417 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6418 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6420 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6421 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6423 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6426 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6427 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6428 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6429 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6430 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6431 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6433 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6434 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6435 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6437 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6438 part (NOT match_host).
6440 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6442 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6443 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6444 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6445 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6446 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6447 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6448 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6449 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6450 the same named file.
6452 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6453 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6456 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6457 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6458 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6459 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6462 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6463 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6464 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6466 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6468 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6470 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6472 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6473 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6475 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6476 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6477 before starting the TLS session.
6479 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6481 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6482 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6484 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6485 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6486 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6487 colon in the middle).
6493 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6494 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6495 multiple configurations are in use.
6497 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6498 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6499 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6500 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6501 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6502 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6504 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6505 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6507 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6508 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6509 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6511 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6512 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6515 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6516 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6518 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6520 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6521 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6523 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6531 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6532 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6533 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6534 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6535 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6537 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6540 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6541 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6542 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6543 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6544 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6545 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6547 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6548 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6549 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6550 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6551 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6552 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6553 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6556 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6557 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6558 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6559 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6560 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6562 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6564 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6565 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6566 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6568 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6570 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6571 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6572 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6575 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6576 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6578 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6579 Three changes have been made:
6581 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6582 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6583 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6584 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6585 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6587 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6590 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6591 the modified behaviour.
6597 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6600 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6601 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6603 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6604 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6605 try to track down a specific problem.
6607 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6608 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6609 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6611 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6614 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6615 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6616 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6617 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6618 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6619 some earlier ones do not.
6621 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6623 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6624 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6625 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6626 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6627 address literals are enabled, of course).
6629 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6631 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6632 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6633 by a command such as
6637 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6639 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6641 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6642 remained set. It is now erased.
6644 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6645 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6647 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6648 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6649 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6650 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6651 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6652 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6653 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6654 appropriate error code.
6656 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6657 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6658 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6659 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6660 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6661 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6663 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6664 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6665 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6667 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6668 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6669 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6670 terminate the header.
6672 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6673 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6674 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6676 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6677 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6678 (4.30/29). In particular:
6680 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6683 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6684 to write a maildirsize file.
6686 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6687 the transport, the new value overrides.
6689 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6692 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6693 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6694 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6697 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6698 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6699 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6702 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6703 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6704 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6706 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6707 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6710 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6711 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6712 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6714 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6716 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6718 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6720 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6721 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6724 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6725 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6726 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6727 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6728 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6729 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6730 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6733 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6734 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6735 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6736 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6737 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6740 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6741 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6742 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6743 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6744 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6745 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6746 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6747 cached value only when the same options are set.
6749 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6751 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6752 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6753 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6754 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6755 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6757 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6758 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6759 it is clearly obsolete.
6761 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6764 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6765 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6766 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6769 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6770 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6771 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6772 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6773 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6775 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6776 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6777 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6778 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6780 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6782 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6784 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6785 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6788 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6789 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6790 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6791 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6792 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6793 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6796 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6797 with the -f command-line option.
6799 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6800 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6801 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6802 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6803 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6804 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6806 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6807 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6810 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6811 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6812 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6813 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6814 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6815 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6816 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6817 buffer is too small.
6819 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6820 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6822 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6823 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6824 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6825 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6826 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6827 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6828 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6829 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6830 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6832 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6833 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6834 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6836 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6837 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6840 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6841 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6842 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6843 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6844 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6846 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6847 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6848 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6849 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6852 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6854 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6856 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6857 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6859 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6860 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6861 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6863 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6864 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6865 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6866 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6867 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6869 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6870 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6871 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6872 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6873 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6874 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6875 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6877 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6878 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6879 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6880 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6881 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6882 the test of how many are available.
6884 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6885 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6886 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6887 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6888 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6889 new message is started.
6891 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6892 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6894 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6895 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6897 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6898 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6899 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6902 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6903 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6904 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6905 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6906 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6907 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6908 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6910 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6911 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6912 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6913 interpreted as octal.
6915 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6918 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6919 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6920 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6921 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6922 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6923 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6925 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6926 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6927 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6928 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6930 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6931 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6932 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6933 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6935 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6936 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6939 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6940 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6942 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6944 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6945 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6946 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6947 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6949 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6950 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6951 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6952 supplied", which is not helpful.
6954 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6955 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6956 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6958 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6959 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6960 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6961 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6962 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6963 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6964 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6965 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6967 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6968 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6969 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6970 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6971 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6973 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6974 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6975 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6976 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6977 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6978 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6980 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6981 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6982 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6984 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6986 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6987 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6988 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6991 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6993 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6994 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6995 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6996 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6997 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6998 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6999 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7000 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7002 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7003 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7004 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7005 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7006 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7008 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7011 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7012 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7013 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7014 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7015 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7016 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7017 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7018 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7019 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7025 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7026 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7027 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7029 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7032 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7033 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7034 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7036 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7037 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7038 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7039 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7040 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7041 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7043 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7044 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7045 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7046 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7047 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7048 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7049 the Exim test suite.
7051 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7052 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7053 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7054 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7056 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7057 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7058 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7059 specify it in this variable.
7061 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7062 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7063 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7064 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7066 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7067 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7068 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7069 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7071 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7072 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7073 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7074 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7075 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7077 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7079 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7082 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7083 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7084 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7085 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7086 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7088 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7089 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7091 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7092 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7093 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7094 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7095 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7097 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7098 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7100 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7101 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7102 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7104 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7105 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7107 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7108 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7110 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7111 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7112 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7114 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7115 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7117 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7118 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7119 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7120 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7122 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7124 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7125 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7126 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7127 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7129 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7131 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7132 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7134 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7136 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7137 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7138 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7139 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7140 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7141 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7143 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7145 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7146 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7149 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7151 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7152 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7154 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7155 550 Sender verify failed
7157 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7158 the final line of the response.
7160 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7161 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7162 all other user lookups.
7164 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7167 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7168 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7169 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7170 result into an int without checking.
7172 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7173 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7174 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7176 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7177 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7178 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7179 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7181 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7184 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7185 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7187 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7188 to the empty sender.
7190 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7191 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7192 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7193 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7194 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7195 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7196 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7199 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7200 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7201 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7202 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7205 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7206 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7208 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7211 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7212 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7214 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7216 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7217 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7220 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7221 as soon as it is encountered.
7223 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7225 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7228 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7229 recognizes a tab character.
7231 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7232 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7233 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7234 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7236 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7238 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7241 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7243 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7245 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7246 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7249 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7250 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7251 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7252 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7253 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7255 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7256 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7258 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7259 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7260 list (.included file names were always shown).
7262 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7263 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7264 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7267 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7268 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7270 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7272 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7274 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7276 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7277 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7278 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7279 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7280 failures to open the logs.
7282 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7283 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7284 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7285 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7286 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7287 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7288 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7294 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7295 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7296 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7299 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7300 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7301 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7303 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7304 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7305 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7307 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7308 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7309 causing some misleading effects.
7311 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7312 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7313 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7315 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7316 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7317 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7318 queue-runner function directly.
7324 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7327 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7328 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7329 was always written to the default place.
7331 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7332 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7333 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7335 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7337 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7339 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7340 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7341 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7343 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7344 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7347 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7348 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7349 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7351 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7352 command line option is disabled.
7354 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7355 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7357 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7359 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7361 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7362 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7364 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7366 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7367 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7368 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7369 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7370 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7371 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7373 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7374 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7377 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7378 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7380 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7381 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7383 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7384 received was valid base64.
7386 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7387 name of the variable that was being set.
7389 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7391 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7392 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7393 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7394 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7395 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7396 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7398 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7400 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7401 nor realm was specified.
7403 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7404 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7405 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7406 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7408 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7409 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7410 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7412 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7413 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7414 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7416 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7417 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7418 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7419 some systems use these upper case variants.
7421 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7422 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7423 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7424 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7426 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7428 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7429 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7431 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7432 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7435 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7437 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7438 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7439 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7440 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7442 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7445 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7446 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7447 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7449 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7450 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7452 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7453 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7454 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7455 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7457 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7458 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7459 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7461 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7463 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7464 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7465 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7466 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7469 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7470 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7471 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7473 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7475 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7476 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7478 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7479 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7481 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7482 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7483 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7484 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7485 when emails are that large.
7492 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7493 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7495 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7496 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7497 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7499 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7500 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7501 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7503 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7504 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7505 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7506 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7507 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7509 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7510 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7511 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7512 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7513 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7516 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7517 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7518 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7519 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7520 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7521 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7522 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7523 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7524 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7525 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7526 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7527 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7528 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7529 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7531 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7532 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7535 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7536 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7537 error should be diagnosed.
7539 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7540 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7541 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7542 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7543 appeared instead of "NULL".
7545 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7546 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7547 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7548 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7549 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7550 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7553 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7554 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7555 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7561 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7562 or receiver verification errors.
7564 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7567 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7568 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7569 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7570 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7572 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7573 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7574 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7575 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7576 shouldn't happen again.
7578 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7579 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7580 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7582 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7583 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7585 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7587 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7588 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7590 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7591 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7594 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7595 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7596 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7598 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7599 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7600 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7601 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7603 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7604 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7605 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7606 to define what should happen).
7608 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7609 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7610 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7612 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7614 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7616 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7617 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7619 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7620 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7621 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7622 structure in all cases.
7624 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7625 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7626 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7627 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7629 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7630 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7633 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7634 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7636 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7637 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7639 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7640 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7641 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7643 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7644 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7645 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7647 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7648 the book and for uniformity.
7650 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7652 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7653 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7654 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7655 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7656 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7657 non-existent command as the problem.
7659 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7660 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7661 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7663 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7665 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7666 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7667 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7669 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7670 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7671 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7672 timestamps using strftime().
7674 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7675 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7677 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7678 transport-time rewrites.
7680 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7681 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7682 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7683 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7685 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7686 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7688 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7689 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7690 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7691 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7694 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7695 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7696 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7697 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7698 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7699 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7700 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7702 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7703 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7704 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7705 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7706 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7708 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7709 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7710 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7711 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7712 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7713 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7714 remaining text gets split now.
7716 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7717 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7718 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7719 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7721 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7722 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7723 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7724 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7727 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7728 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7729 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7730 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7731 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7732 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7733 passed through if needed.
7735 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7736 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7737 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7738 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7739 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7740 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7742 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7743 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7744 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7745 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7746 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7748 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7749 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7750 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7751 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7752 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7754 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7755 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7758 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7759 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7760 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7761 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7762 mayhem of various kinds.
7764 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7765 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7766 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7767 the right test for positive values.
7769 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7770 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7771 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7772 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7773 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7774 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7775 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7776 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7777 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7778 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7781 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7784 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7785 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7788 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7789 the existing equality matching.
7791 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7792 dealing with inode numbers.
7794 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7795 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7796 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7798 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7799 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7800 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7801 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7804 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7805 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7806 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7807 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7808 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7809 relay addresses has also been removed.
7811 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7813 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7814 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7815 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7817 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7818 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7819 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7820 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7821 processing applies to CR:
7823 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7824 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7826 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7827 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7828 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7829 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7831 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7832 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7833 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7835 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7836 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7837 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7838 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7839 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7840 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7843 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7846 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7847 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7848 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7849 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7852 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7854 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7856 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7858 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7859 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7860 not considered personal.
7862 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7864 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7866 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7868 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7869 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7870 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7871 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7872 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7873 header lines, and spool format errors.
7875 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7876 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7877 for more flexibility.
7879 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7880 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7881 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7883 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7886 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7887 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7888 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7889 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7890 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7891 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7892 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7893 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7894 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7896 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7897 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7898 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7899 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7900 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7901 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7902 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7904 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7905 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7906 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7908 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7909 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7910 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7911 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7912 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7913 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7914 instead of killing the process with assert().
7916 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7917 than Unicode encoding.
7919 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7920 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7921 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7922 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7924 77. Added process_log_path.
7926 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7927 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7929 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7930 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7932 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7933 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7934 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7936 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7937 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7938 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7939 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7940 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7943 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7944 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7947 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7948 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7949 they will be used during message reception.
7955 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.