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.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
101 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
102 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
103 to not checking that list for these lookups.
105 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
108 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
109 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
110 was done, killing the process.
112 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
113 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
114 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
117 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
118 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
119 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
120 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
126 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
127 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
128 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
131 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
132 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
134 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
135 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
136 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
137 not be modified by local-scan code.
139 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
140 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
142 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
143 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
146 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
147 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
149 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
150 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
153 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
154 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
155 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
157 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
158 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
159 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
161 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
162 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
163 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
164 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
165 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
166 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
167 Assorted crashes happen.
169 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
170 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
171 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
174 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
175 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
176 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
177 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
179 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
180 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
181 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
184 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
186 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
187 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
190 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
191 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
192 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
194 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
195 result of expansion operators and items.
197 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
198 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
199 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
200 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
202 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
204 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
205 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
206 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
207 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
210 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
211 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
213 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
214 Previously only the domain part was returned.
216 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
217 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
218 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
219 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
221 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
222 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
223 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
224 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
226 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
227 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
228 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
229 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
230 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
233 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
234 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
235 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
237 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
238 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
239 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
240 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
242 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
243 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
244 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
245 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
247 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
248 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
249 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
250 Previously only the server IP was used.
252 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
253 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
254 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
255 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
257 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
258 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
259 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
261 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
262 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
263 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
266 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
267 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
269 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
270 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
276 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
277 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
278 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
280 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
281 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
282 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
283 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
285 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
286 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
287 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
288 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
289 so could be handling tainted values.
291 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
292 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
293 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
295 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
296 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
297 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
300 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
301 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
302 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
303 to align better with RFC 6125.
305 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
306 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
307 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
308 by adding a release action in that path.
310 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
311 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
312 dynamically-created buffers.
314 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
315 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
316 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
317 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
319 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
320 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
321 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
322 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
324 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
325 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
326 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
328 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
329 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
330 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
331 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
333 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
334 excluded, not matching the documentation.
336 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
337 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
339 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
340 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
341 this was a coding error.
343 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
344 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
345 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
346 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
347 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
348 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
349 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
351 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
352 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
353 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
354 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
356 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
357 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
358 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
359 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
360 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
362 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
363 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
366 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
367 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
368 domain-parking registrar.
370 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
371 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
372 after removing the newline.
374 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
375 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
376 option set, which was previously used.
378 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
381 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
382 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
383 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
384 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
386 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
387 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
388 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
389 exim.dev.20160529.3).
391 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
392 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
393 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
395 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
396 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
397 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
400 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
401 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
402 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
404 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
405 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
406 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
407 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
410 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
411 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
412 there, handle PRX and TFO.
414 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
415 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
416 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
417 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
418 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
420 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
421 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
422 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
423 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
426 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
427 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
429 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
432 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
433 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
434 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
435 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
436 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
438 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
440 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
441 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
442 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
443 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
444 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
445 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
447 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
448 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
450 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
451 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
452 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
454 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
455 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
458 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
459 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
460 of a new variable: $auth4.
462 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
463 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
464 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
465 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
466 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
468 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
469 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
470 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
471 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
473 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
474 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
475 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
477 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
478 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
479 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
480 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
483 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
484 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
485 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
488 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
489 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
490 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
491 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
493 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
494 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
496 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
497 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
498 looked as if if might be one.
500 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
501 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
502 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
503 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
504 messages can show the proxy information.
506 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
507 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
508 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
509 "queue_time_exclusive".
511 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
512 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
513 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
515 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
516 making it unusable in complex expressions.
518 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
519 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
522 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
524 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
526 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
528 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
529 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
530 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
531 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
533 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
534 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
536 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
537 better. Reported by Qualys.
539 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
540 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
543 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
545 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
548 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
550 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
551 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
552 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
553 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
555 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
556 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
558 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
559 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
560 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
561 mode until after various protocol state checks.
562 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
564 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
566 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
567 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
569 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
572 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
573 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
574 executed child processes (if any).
576 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
579 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
580 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
581 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
582 been reported on other platforms.
584 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
586 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
587 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
588 Not supported on Solaris 10.
590 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
591 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
592 since fakereject was originally introduced.
594 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
595 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
597 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
598 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
599 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
602 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
603 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
604 which only permit IP addresses.
610 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
611 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
612 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
614 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
616 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
617 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
620 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
621 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
622 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
624 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
626 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
628 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
629 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
630 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
632 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
633 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
634 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
636 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
637 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
639 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
640 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
643 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
644 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
645 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
646 should both provide the file and set the option.
647 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
649 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
650 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
652 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
653 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
654 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
655 Authentication-Results: header.
657 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
658 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
659 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
660 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
662 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
663 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
664 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
665 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
666 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
667 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
668 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
670 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
671 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
672 copies while it is still usable.
674 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
675 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
676 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
678 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
679 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
681 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
682 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
683 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
684 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
686 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
687 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
688 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
691 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
692 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
693 - the pipe transport command
694 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
695 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
697 - paths used by single-key lookups
698 Previously this was permitted.
700 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
701 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
702 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
703 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
705 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
706 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
707 support larger malloc requests.
709 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
710 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
711 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
712 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
714 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
715 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
716 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
717 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
720 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
721 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
722 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
723 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
724 data being length-specified.
726 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
727 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
728 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
729 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
731 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
732 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
733 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
734 not being properly tracked.
736 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
737 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
738 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
739 minute could be seen.
741 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
742 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
743 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
745 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
746 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
748 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
749 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
752 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
754 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
755 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
757 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
758 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
759 filesystem as sufficient validation.
761 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
762 argument is supplied.
764 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
765 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
766 access under Exim's current working directory.
768 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
769 Previously no event was raised.
771 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
772 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
773 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
776 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
777 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
778 the size of the signature hash.
780 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
781 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
783 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
784 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
785 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
786 dropped between messages.
788 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
789 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
790 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
791 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
793 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
794 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
795 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
796 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
797 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
798 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
799 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
800 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
801 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
803 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
804 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
805 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
807 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
808 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
815 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
816 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
818 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
819 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
822 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
825 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
827 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
829 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
830 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
832 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
833 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
834 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
835 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
836 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
837 suitably configured).
839 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
840 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
842 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
843 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
846 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
847 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
849 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
850 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
851 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
852 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
855 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
856 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
857 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
859 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
862 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
863 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
865 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
866 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
867 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
868 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
871 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
872 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
873 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
874 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
877 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
878 shared (NFS) environment.
880 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
881 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
884 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
885 on some platforms for bit 31.
887 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
888 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
889 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
890 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
891 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
892 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
893 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
894 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
896 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
898 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
899 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
901 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
902 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
905 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
906 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
909 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
910 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
911 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
914 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
915 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
916 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
918 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
919 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
920 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
921 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
922 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
924 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
927 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
928 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
929 be requested on all coneections.
931 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
932 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
934 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
936 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
937 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
938 one for these; the option was ignored.
940 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
941 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
942 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
943 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
945 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
946 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
947 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
950 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
951 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
952 error ignored was made.
954 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
956 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
957 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
958 values, to catch one form of exploit.
960 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
961 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
962 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
964 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
965 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
968 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
969 them in our smtp response.
971 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
972 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
973 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
974 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
975 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
977 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
978 link count into consideration.
980 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
981 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
983 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
984 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
985 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
988 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
990 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
992 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
994 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
995 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
996 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
997 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
999 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1001 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1002 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1005 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1006 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1007 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1009 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1010 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1011 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1013 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1014 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1015 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1016 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1017 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1018 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1019 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1020 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1022 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1023 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1024 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1026 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1027 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1028 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1030 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1031 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1038 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1039 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1041 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1042 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1044 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1045 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1046 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1048 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1049 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1050 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1052 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1053 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1054 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1055 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1056 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1059 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1060 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1062 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1063 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1064 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1065 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1066 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1067 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1068 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1070 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1071 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1073 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1076 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1077 Previously this would segfault.
1079 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1082 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1083 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1084 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1085 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1086 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1087 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1089 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1091 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1092 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1093 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1094 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1096 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1098 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1099 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1100 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1101 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1103 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1105 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1107 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1108 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1109 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1111 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1112 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1113 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1115 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1117 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1118 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1119 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1120 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1122 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1123 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1124 promised '?' replacement.
1126 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1128 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1129 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1130 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1131 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1132 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1134 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1135 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1136 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1138 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1139 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1140 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1142 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1143 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1144 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1146 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1147 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1148 hope that is portable enough.
1150 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1151 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1152 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1153 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1155 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1156 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1157 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1159 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1160 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1161 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1162 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1164 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1165 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1167 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1168 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1169 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1170 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1172 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1173 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1174 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1176 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1177 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1178 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1179 the previous G, M, k.
1181 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1182 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1185 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1186 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1187 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1188 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1190 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1191 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1193 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1194 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1195 off past the nul-terimation.
1197 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1198 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1199 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1200 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1201 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1203 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1205 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1206 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1207 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1210 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1211 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1213 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1214 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1215 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1217 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1218 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1219 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1221 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1222 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1228 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1229 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1230 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1231 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1232 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1233 be defined in redis_servers.
1235 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1236 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1238 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1239 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1240 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1241 extant use locations.
1243 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1244 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1246 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1247 Previously only the last row was returned.
1249 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1250 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1251 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1252 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1255 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1256 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1257 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1258 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1259 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1260 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1261 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1262 Main pool for expansions.
1263 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1264 active in the testsuite.
1265 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1267 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1268 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1269 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1270 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1273 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1274 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1277 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1278 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1279 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1281 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1282 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1283 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1285 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1286 rows affected is given instead).
1288 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1289 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1291 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1292 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1293 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1294 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1295 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1297 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1298 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1299 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1301 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1302 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1303 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1304 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1307 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1308 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1309 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1312 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1314 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1315 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1317 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1318 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1319 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1321 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1322 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1323 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1326 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1327 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1329 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1330 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1331 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1333 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1334 for the build is renamed.
1336 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1337 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1338 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1340 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1341 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1342 result replacing the original.
1344 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1345 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1346 and the resources needed to be freed.
1348 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1350 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1353 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1354 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1355 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1356 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1358 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1359 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1361 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1362 newer versions of the scanner.
1364 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1365 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1366 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1367 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1368 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1369 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1370 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1372 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1373 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1374 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1375 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1376 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1377 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1378 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1379 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1380 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1381 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1383 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1384 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1386 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1388 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1389 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1391 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1392 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1394 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1395 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1396 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1398 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1399 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1400 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1401 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1403 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1404 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1407 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1408 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1410 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1411 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1412 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1413 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1414 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1416 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1417 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1420 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1421 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1423 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1426 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1427 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1428 "bare" representation.
1430 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1431 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1432 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1433 corrupted the output.
1439 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1440 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1441 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1442 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1444 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1445 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1447 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1448 This permits better logging.
1450 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1451 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1452 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1453 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1454 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1455 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1457 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1458 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1461 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1462 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1463 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1465 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1466 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1468 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1469 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1470 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1471 client, there is no benefit for these.
1472 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1473 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1474 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1477 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1478 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1480 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1481 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1482 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1484 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1485 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1487 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1488 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1489 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1490 signature and again for transmission.
1492 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1493 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1494 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1496 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1497 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1498 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1499 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1500 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1501 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1502 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1504 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1505 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1506 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1507 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1509 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1510 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1511 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1512 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1513 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1514 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1517 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1518 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1519 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1520 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1523 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1524 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1525 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1526 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1529 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1530 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1533 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1534 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1535 banner-time rejection.
1537 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1540 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1541 is the name of a transport.
1544 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1546 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1547 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1549 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1550 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1551 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1554 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1555 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1556 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1557 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1559 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1560 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1561 initial verify call returned a defer.
1563 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1564 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1566 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1567 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1569 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1570 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1572 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1573 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1575 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1576 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1579 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1580 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1582 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1583 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1584 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1586 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1587 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1588 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1589 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1591 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1592 and confused the parent.
1594 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1595 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1597 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1600 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1601 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1602 out-of-order delivery.
1604 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1605 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1606 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1609 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1610 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1613 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1614 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1615 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1617 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1618 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1619 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1620 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1621 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1622 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1624 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1625 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1626 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1628 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1629 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1630 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1632 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1633 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1634 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1635 though a different problem.
1641 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1642 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1644 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1646 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1647 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1649 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1650 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1652 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1653 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1654 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1655 before acknowledging the chunk.
1657 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1658 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1659 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1661 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1662 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1663 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1666 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1667 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1668 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1670 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1671 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1673 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1674 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1675 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1676 body hash calculated value.
1678 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1679 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1680 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1682 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1684 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1685 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1687 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1688 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1689 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1691 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1692 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1693 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1694 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1695 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1696 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1698 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1699 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1700 past that check, despite the cost.
1702 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1703 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1704 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1706 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1707 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1708 TLS library to consume.
1710 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1712 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1714 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1715 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1716 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1717 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1718 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1719 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1720 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1722 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1724 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1726 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1727 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1728 should be warning-free.
1730 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1732 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1733 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1735 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1736 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1737 general solution here.
1739 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1740 already-broken messages in the queue.
1742 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1744 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1750 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1751 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1753 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1754 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1755 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1757 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1758 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1759 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1760 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1761 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1762 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1763 if one fails this test.
1764 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1765 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1767 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1768 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1770 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1771 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1773 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1774 in rewrites and routers.
1776 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1777 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1779 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1780 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1782 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1784 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1787 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1788 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1789 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1790 connection after a verify cache hit.
1791 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1793 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1794 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1796 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1797 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1798 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1799 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1800 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1802 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1803 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1805 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1806 Previously they were not counted.
1808 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1809 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1810 that needed the lookup.
1812 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1813 distinguished as "(=".
1815 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1816 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1818 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1820 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1821 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1823 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1824 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1826 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1827 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1830 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1831 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1832 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1833 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1835 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1837 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1838 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1839 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1841 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1842 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1843 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1846 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1847 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1848 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1851 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1852 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1853 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1855 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1856 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1859 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1861 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1862 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1864 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1865 are not in the system include path.
1867 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1868 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1869 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1870 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1872 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1873 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1874 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1876 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1878 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1879 an incoming connection.
1881 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1884 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1885 fallback to "prime256v1".
1887 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1888 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1894 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1895 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1896 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1897 client dropping the TLS connection.
1899 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1900 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1902 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1903 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1904 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1905 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1908 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1909 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1910 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1911 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1912 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1913 check on the next write.
1915 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1916 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1917 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1918 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1919 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1921 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1922 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1924 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1925 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1926 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1928 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1929 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1930 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1931 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1933 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1934 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1936 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1937 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1939 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1940 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1941 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1944 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1946 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1948 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1950 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1951 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1953 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1954 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1956 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1958 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1959 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1961 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1963 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1964 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1966 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1968 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1969 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1970 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1971 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1972 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1973 they will retry in-clear.
1974 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1975 at installation time.
1977 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1978 with the $config_file variable.
1980 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1981 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1982 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1983 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1984 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1986 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1987 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1988 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1989 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1990 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1992 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1994 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1995 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1996 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1997 list order is no longer honoured.
1999 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2000 for DKIM processing.
2002 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2003 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2005 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2006 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2007 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2008 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2010 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2011 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2013 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2014 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2016 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2017 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2019 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2021 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2022 cached by the daemon.
2024 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2025 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2027 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2028 keys are given for lookup.
2030 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2031 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2032 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2033 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2035 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2036 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2037 server-side so match that on older versions.
2039 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2040 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2041 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2043 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2044 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2046 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2047 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2048 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2049 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2050 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2051 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2052 initial truncated version.
2054 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2056 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2058 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2059 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2061 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2063 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2065 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2066 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2069 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2070 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2073 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2074 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2076 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2077 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2080 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2081 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2082 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2084 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2085 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2086 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2087 extraction. Accept either.
2093 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2096 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2098 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2101 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2102 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2103 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2104 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2106 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2107 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2108 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2110 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2111 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2112 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2115 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2118 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2119 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2120 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2121 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2122 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2124 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2125 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2126 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2128 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2130 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2131 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2133 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2134 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2136 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2139 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2140 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2142 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2143 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2144 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2146 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2147 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2148 specify a port-range.
2150 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2151 timeout value per server.
2153 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2154 now have the list separator specified.
2156 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2159 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2162 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2164 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2165 rather than the verbs used.
2167 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2168 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2170 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2172 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2173 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2175 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2176 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2178 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2179 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2181 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2183 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2185 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2186 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2187 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2188 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2190 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2192 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2193 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2195 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2196 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2198 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2200 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2202 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2204 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2205 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2207 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2208 added for tls authenticator.
2210 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2216 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2217 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2218 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2219 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2220 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2221 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2222 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2224 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2225 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2226 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2227 function when detected.
2229 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2230 cause callback expansion.
2232 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2233 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2234 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2235 instead of bool when processing it.
2237 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2238 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2240 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2242 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2244 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2246 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2247 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2249 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2250 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2251 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2252 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2253 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2254 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2256 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2257 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2260 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2261 version 3.3.6 or later.
2263 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2264 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2265 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2266 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2267 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2268 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2271 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2272 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2274 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2275 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2276 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2279 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2280 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2281 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2283 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2284 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2286 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2287 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2290 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2292 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2293 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2295 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2296 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2299 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2301 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2304 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2305 output list separator was used.
2310 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2311 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2314 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2315 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2317 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2319 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2320 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2326 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2328 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2329 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2330 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2331 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2332 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2333 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2335 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2336 utilities have not been installed.
2338 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2339 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2341 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2342 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2344 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2345 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2346 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2347 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2349 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2351 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2352 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2354 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2357 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2359 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2360 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2361 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2363 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2364 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2365 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2366 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2367 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2368 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2370 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2372 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2373 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2375 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2378 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2380 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2382 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2383 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2385 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2386 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2388 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2390 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2392 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2393 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2395 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2396 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2397 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2399 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2400 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2401 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2404 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2406 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2407 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2410 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2411 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2414 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2415 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2417 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2418 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2420 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2422 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2423 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2424 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2426 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2427 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2429 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2430 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2433 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2434 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2435 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2437 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2439 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2440 Christian Aistleitner.
2442 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2444 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2445 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2447 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2448 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2450 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2451 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2453 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2454 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2456 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2457 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2459 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2460 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2461 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2463 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2465 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2466 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2469 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2471 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2472 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2479 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2481 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2482 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2484 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2487 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2488 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2491 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2493 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2494 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2495 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2496 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2497 using channel bindings instead).
2499 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2500 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2501 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2502 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2503 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2506 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2508 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2510 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2511 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2513 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2514 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2515 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2517 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2519 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2521 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2522 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2524 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2526 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2528 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2530 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2531 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2533 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2535 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2536 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2539 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2540 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2542 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2543 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2546 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2548 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2550 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2551 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2553 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2556 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2557 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2559 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2560 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2562 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2564 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2566 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2569 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2572 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2574 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2575 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2576 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2577 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2579 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2581 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2582 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2583 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2584 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2587 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2588 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2589 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2591 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2592 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2593 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2594 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2596 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2597 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2598 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2599 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2600 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2601 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2602 delivery, as in LMTP.
2604 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2605 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2607 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2609 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2613 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2614 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2615 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2616 username as equal to the username.
2618 This change corrects that bug.
2620 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2621 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2622 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2624 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2626 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2627 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2628 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2629 NULL dereference and crash.
2631 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2633 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2634 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2635 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2637 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2639 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2640 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2641 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2642 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2643 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2644 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2645 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2646 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2647 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2648 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2649 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2651 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2652 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2654 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2655 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2658 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2659 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2660 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2661 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2662 an empty string is now equivalent.
2664 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2665 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2666 not performing validation itself.
2668 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2669 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2671 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2674 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2676 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2677 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2678 other false fix of the same issue.
2679 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2682 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2683 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2685 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2686 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2687 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2689 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2690 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2691 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2693 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2695 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2697 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2698 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2700 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2703 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2704 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2705 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2706 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2707 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2709 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2710 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2712 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2713 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2716 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2717 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2718 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2719 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2721 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2723 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2724 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2725 from multiple comments on this bug.
2727 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2729 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2730 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2733 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2734 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2736 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2737 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2743 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2745 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2751 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2752 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2753 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2755 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2757 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2760 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2762 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2764 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2766 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2767 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2769 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2770 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2772 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2773 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2775 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2776 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2777 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2779 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2781 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2782 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2784 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2786 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2788 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2789 non-compliant senders.
2790 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2792 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2793 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2794 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2796 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2797 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2798 in spool file corruption.
2800 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2801 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2802 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2805 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2806 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2807 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2809 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2810 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2812 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2814 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2816 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2818 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2819 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2820 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2822 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2823 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2824 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2825 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2827 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2828 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2830 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2831 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2832 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2833 resolver implementation change.
2835 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2836 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2838 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2840 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2842 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2843 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2845 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2846 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2848 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2849 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2851 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2852 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2853 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2854 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2855 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2857 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2859 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2860 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2861 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2863 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2865 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2866 read-only, out of scope).
2867 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2869 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2870 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2871 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2872 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2874 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2876 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2877 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2878 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2879 real issues in debug logging.
2881 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2882 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2884 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2885 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2886 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2888 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2889 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2890 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2893 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2894 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2896 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2897 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2898 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2899 needs to override this, it can.
2901 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2902 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2903 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2905 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2906 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2907 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2908 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2910 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2916 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2917 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2919 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2921 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2924 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2925 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2927 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2928 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2929 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2931 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2932 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2933 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2934 not safe for signals.
2936 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2937 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2938 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2939 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2942 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2944 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2945 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2946 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2947 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2948 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2950 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2951 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2952 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2953 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2954 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2955 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2957 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2958 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2959 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2960 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2962 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2963 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2964 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2965 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2967 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2968 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2969 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2970 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2971 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2972 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2973 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2974 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2975 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2977 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2978 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2979 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2980 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2982 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2983 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2984 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2985 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2986 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2987 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2988 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2989 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2990 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2991 details in the main documentation.
2993 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2995 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2997 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2998 repository when doing development or release builds.
3000 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3001 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3003 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3004 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3007 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3009 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3010 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3012 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3013 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3015 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3016 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3018 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3019 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3021 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3022 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3024 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3026 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3029 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3030 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3031 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3033 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3035 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3037 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3038 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3044 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3046 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3047 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3049 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3051 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3053 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3056 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3057 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3059 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3060 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3062 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3063 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3065 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3068 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3069 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3071 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3072 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3073 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3074 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3076 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3077 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3083 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3086 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3087 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3088 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3090 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3091 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3093 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3094 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3095 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3097 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3098 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3100 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3101 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3103 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3104 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3106 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3107 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3109 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3110 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3112 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3115 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3116 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3118 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3119 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3121 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3122 SQL string expansion failure details.
3123 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3125 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3126 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3128 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3129 extern declarations in function scope.
3130 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3132 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3133 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3134 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3137 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3138 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3140 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3141 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3143 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3144 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3146 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3147 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3149 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3150 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3153 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3155 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3157 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3158 Patch by Simon Arlott
3160 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3161 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3167 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3168 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3170 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3171 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3173 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3175 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3176 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3177 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3179 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3180 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3181 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3183 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3184 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3185 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3186 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3188 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3189 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3190 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3191 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3193 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3194 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3195 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3198 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3201 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3202 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3203 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3204 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3205 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3211 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3212 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3213 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3215 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3216 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3218 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3220 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3222 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3224 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3226 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3228 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3229 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3230 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3231 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3233 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3234 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3235 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3236 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3237 more caution in buffer sizes.
3239 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3241 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3243 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3245 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3247 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3249 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3251 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3253 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3254 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3255 ignore trailing whitespace.
3257 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3259 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3262 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3263 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3265 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3266 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3267 Notification from John Horne.
3269 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3272 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3273 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3276 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3279 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3280 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3281 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3283 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3284 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3285 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3288 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3289 option (effectively making it always true).
3291 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3292 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3294 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3295 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3297 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3298 run-time user, instead of root.
3300 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3301 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3303 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3304 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3307 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3308 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3309 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3311 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3313 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3319 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3320 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3323 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3324 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3327 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3328 Patch from Alain Williams
3330 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3332 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3333 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3335 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3336 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3338 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3340 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3342 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3343 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3345 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3347 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3349 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3350 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3351 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3353 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3354 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3356 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3357 Patch by Simon Arlott
3359 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3360 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3366 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3368 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3370 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3372 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3374 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3380 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3381 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3383 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3384 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3387 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3388 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3389 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3391 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3392 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3394 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3395 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3396 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3397 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3399 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3400 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3401 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3403 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3405 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3407 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3408 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3410 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3412 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3413 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3414 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3415 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3417 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3418 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3420 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3422 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3424 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3425 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3427 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3428 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3430 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3431 that they are available at delivery time.
3433 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3435 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3436 incoming_port log selectors.
3438 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3439 setting expands to an empty string.
3441 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3442 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3444 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3445 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3447 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3448 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3450 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3451 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3453 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3454 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3456 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3457 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3459 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3461 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3462 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3464 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3465 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3467 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3469 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3470 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3472 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3474 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3476 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3479 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3480 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3482 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3483 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3485 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3486 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3488 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3489 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3491 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3492 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3494 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3495 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3497 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3498 plus update to original patch.
3500 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3502 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3503 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3505 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3507 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3509 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3511 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3513 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3514 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3516 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3517 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3519 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3520 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3522 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3523 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3525 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3527 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3529 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3531 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3537 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3538 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3539 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3541 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3542 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3543 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3544 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3545 build errors in sieve.c.
3547 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3548 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3549 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3551 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3553 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3555 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3557 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3563 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3565 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3566 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3567 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3568 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3569 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3570 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3571 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3572 for iplsearch lookups.
3574 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3575 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3576 previously such lookups could never work.
3578 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3579 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3580 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3582 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3585 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3586 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3587 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3588 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3589 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3590 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3592 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3593 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3595 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3596 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3597 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3598 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3599 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3600 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3602 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3605 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3607 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3608 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3611 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3612 by clients under certain conditions.
3614 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3615 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3617 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3619 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3620 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3622 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3624 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3626 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3628 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3629 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3631 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3633 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3634 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3636 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3638 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3640 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3641 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3642 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3643 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3645 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3646 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3647 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3649 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3650 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3652 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3654 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3656 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3658 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3659 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3660 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3666 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3667 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3670 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3671 issue a MAIL command.
3673 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3675 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3677 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3678 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3679 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3680 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3681 item. This has been fixed.
3683 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3684 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3686 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3687 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3689 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3690 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3691 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3693 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3695 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3696 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3697 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3698 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3699 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3701 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3702 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3703 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3705 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3706 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3707 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3708 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3710 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3712 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3714 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3715 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3716 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3717 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3718 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3720 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3722 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3723 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3724 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3727 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3729 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3731 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3733 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3735 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3737 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3738 no_callout_flush is set.
3740 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3741 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3742 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3745 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3747 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3748 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3749 other ACL rejections are.
3751 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3752 with slight modification.
3754 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3755 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3757 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3758 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3761 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3762 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3764 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3766 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3767 expansion side effects.
3769 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3770 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3771 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3774 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3775 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3776 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3778 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3779 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3780 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3781 were accidentally chopped off.
3783 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3784 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3785 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3786 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3787 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3788 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3789 pipelining has not been advertised.
3791 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3793 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3794 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3795 This has been fixed.
3797 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3798 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3799 reported on Solaris.
3801 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3802 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3803 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3804 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3805 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3806 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3807 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3809 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3812 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3814 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3816 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3817 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3818 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3819 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3820 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3821 criteria to be more general.
3823 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3824 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3825 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3826 host_all_ignored option.
3828 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3829 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3830 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3831 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3832 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3833 is what is supposed to happen).
3835 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3836 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3837 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3838 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3839 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3842 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3843 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3844 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3845 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3846 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3847 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3850 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3852 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3853 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3855 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3856 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3858 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3860 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3862 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3863 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3864 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3865 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3866 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3867 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3868 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3869 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3870 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3871 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3872 least in a lot of common cases.
3874 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3875 advertised in response to EHLO.
3881 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3882 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3884 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3885 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3887 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3888 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3889 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3891 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3892 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3893 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3894 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3895 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3901 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3902 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3905 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3906 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3907 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3909 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3910 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3911 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3912 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3913 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3914 rather than extend the field.
3920 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3921 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3922 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3923 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3926 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3927 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3928 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3930 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3931 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3932 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3934 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3935 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3936 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3939 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3940 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3941 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3942 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3943 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3944 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3945 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3946 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3947 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3948 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3949 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3951 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3954 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3955 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3956 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3957 ignores EPIPE as well.
3959 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3960 (quoted-printable decoding).
3962 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3963 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3965 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3967 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3969 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3971 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3972 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3974 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3977 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3978 miscellaneous code fixes
3980 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3983 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3984 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3985 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3986 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3987 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3988 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3989 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3990 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3992 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3993 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3994 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3995 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3997 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3998 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3999 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4000 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4001 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4002 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4003 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4004 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4005 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4007 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4010 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4011 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4012 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4013 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4014 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4015 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4016 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4017 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4019 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4020 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4023 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4024 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4025 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4026 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4027 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4028 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4029 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4030 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4031 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4032 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4033 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4034 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4035 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4037 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4038 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4039 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4040 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4041 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4042 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4043 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4045 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4046 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4047 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4048 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4049 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4050 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4051 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4052 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4053 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4054 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4056 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4057 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4058 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4059 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4060 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4062 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4063 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4064 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4065 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4066 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4067 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4068 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4070 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4071 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4072 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4073 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4074 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4075 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4078 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4079 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4080 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4083 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4084 if any retry times were supplied.
4086 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4087 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4088 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4090 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4092 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4094 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4095 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4096 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4097 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4098 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4099 before) are ignored.
4101 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4102 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4104 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4105 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4106 committing the later change.]
4108 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4109 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4110 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4111 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4112 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4113 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4114 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4115 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4116 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4118 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4119 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4120 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4121 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4122 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4123 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4124 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4125 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4126 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4128 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4129 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4130 hammering the server.
4132 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4133 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4135 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4137 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4138 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4139 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4141 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4142 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4143 one case where this was not true.
4145 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4146 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4147 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4148 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4151 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4152 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4153 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4154 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4155 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4156 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4157 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4158 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4159 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4162 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4163 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4164 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4165 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4167 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4168 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4170 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4171 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4172 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4174 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4176 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4178 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4180 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4181 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4182 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4183 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4185 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4186 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4188 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4189 be meaningful with "accept".
4191 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4192 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4194 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4195 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4196 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4198 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4199 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4200 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4201 there is data to show.
4202 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4204 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4205 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4206 as well as the number of messages.
4208 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4209 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4210 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4212 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4213 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4214 have a flag are now skipped.
4216 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4217 Added the -emptyok flag.
4219 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4220 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4222 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4223 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4224 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4226 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4229 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4230 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4232 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4234 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4235 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4237 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4239 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4240 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4241 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4242 contravention of the specifications.
4244 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4245 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4246 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4248 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4249 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4250 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4252 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4254 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4255 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4256 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4257 some point in the past.
4259 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4260 transport during callout processing was broken.
4262 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4263 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4265 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4266 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4268 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4269 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4271 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4277 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4278 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4280 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4281 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4282 there is data to show.
4283 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4285 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4286 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4288 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4289 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4291 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4292 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4294 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4295 submissions from trusted users.
4297 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4298 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4300 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4301 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4302 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4303 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4304 there is now a framework to start from.
4306 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4307 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4308 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4310 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4312 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4314 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4316 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4317 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4318 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4320 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4323 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4324 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4325 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4327 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4328 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4329 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4332 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4333 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4334 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4335 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4336 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4338 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4339 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4341 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4343 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4344 operations in malware.c.
4346 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4349 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4350 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4351 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4354 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4355 statements to "add_header".
4357 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4358 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4360 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4361 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4364 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4368 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4369 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4370 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4373 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4374 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4376 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4377 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4379 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4380 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4381 any possible encoding problems.
4383 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4384 but not after initializing Perl.
4386 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4387 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4388 apparently, which is not desirable.
4390 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4393 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4396 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4398 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4399 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4400 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4401 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4403 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4404 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4405 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4407 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4408 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4409 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4412 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4413 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4414 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4415 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4416 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4422 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4423 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4425 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4428 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4429 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4430 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4431 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4432 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4433 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4434 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4435 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4438 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4440 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4441 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4442 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4444 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4445 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4446 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4449 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4450 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4452 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4453 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4454 option (which defaults to 0600).
4456 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4458 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4459 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4460 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4461 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4462 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4463 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4464 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4466 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4472 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4473 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4474 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4475 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4476 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4477 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4480 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4481 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4483 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4485 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4486 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4487 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4488 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4489 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4492 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4493 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4495 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4496 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4497 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4498 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4499 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4501 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4502 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4503 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4504 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4506 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4507 be the same on different OS.
4509 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4512 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4513 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4515 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4518 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4519 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4520 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4521 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4522 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4523 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4526 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4527 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4528 when Exim was called.
4530 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4531 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4533 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4534 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4535 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4536 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4538 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4539 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4540 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4541 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4544 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4545 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4546 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4548 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4549 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4550 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4552 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4555 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4556 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4557 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4558 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4559 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4560 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4561 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4562 values from the SRV records were lost.
4564 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4565 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4566 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4568 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4569 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4570 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4572 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4573 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4574 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4575 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4576 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4577 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4578 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4579 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4580 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4581 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4583 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4584 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4585 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4587 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4588 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4590 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4591 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4592 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4593 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4596 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4597 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4598 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4600 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4601 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4602 PH/23 above applies.
4604 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4605 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4606 (for which there is an explicit test).
4608 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4610 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4611 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4612 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4613 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4614 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4616 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4617 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4618 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4619 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4621 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4622 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4623 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4625 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4627 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4629 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4630 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4631 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4633 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4634 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4635 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4636 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4637 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4639 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4640 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4641 the message gets confusing).
4643 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4644 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4645 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4646 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4648 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4649 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4650 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4651 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4654 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4655 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4656 the different processes.
4658 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4660 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4662 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4663 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4665 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4666 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4668 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4669 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4670 messages matching specified criteria.
4672 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4674 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4675 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4677 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4678 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4679 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4680 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4681 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4682 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4683 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4684 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4685 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4686 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4688 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4689 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4690 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4692 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4694 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4695 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4696 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4697 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4698 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4699 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4700 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4703 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4704 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4706 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4708 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4710 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4712 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4713 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4714 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4715 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4716 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4717 size of the count of files.
4719 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4721 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4724 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4725 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4726 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4727 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4729 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4730 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4731 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4733 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4734 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4735 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4736 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4737 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4739 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4740 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4742 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4743 will now be deprecated.
4745 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4747 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4748 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4749 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4751 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4752 with very large, slow to parse queues
4754 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4756 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4758 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4759 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4760 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4763 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4764 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4765 Sieve code now uses this.
4767 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4768 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4770 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4771 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4773 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4775 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4776 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4777 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4778 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4779 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4781 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4782 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4783 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4784 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4786 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4788 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4790 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4791 is preferred over IPv4.
4793 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4794 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4795 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4796 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4797 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4798 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4799 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4801 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4802 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4803 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4805 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4807 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4808 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4809 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4810 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4811 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4812 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4813 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4814 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4815 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4816 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4817 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4819 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4820 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4821 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4827 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4829 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4830 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4832 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4833 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4834 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4836 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4838 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4841 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4844 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4845 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4846 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4849 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4850 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4852 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4853 inside the third argument.
4855 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4856 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4859 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4860 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4862 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4863 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4865 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4867 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4868 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4871 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4873 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4874 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4875 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4876 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4877 identical. For example:
4879 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4881 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4882 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4883 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4885 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4886 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4887 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4888 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4890 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4891 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4892 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4895 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4897 o fixes some comments
4898 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4899 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4900 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4901 and documents the missing references header update
4905 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4906 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4909 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4910 Electronic Mail") by including:
4912 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4914 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4915 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4916 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4917 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4918 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4920 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4922 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4924 The auto-replied keyword:
4926 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4927 message by an automatic process,
4929 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4931 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4932 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4934 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4935 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4938 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4939 to the default Received: header definition.
4941 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4943 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4944 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4945 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4947 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4948 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4949 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4951 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4952 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4953 and treats the condition as false.
4955 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4957 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4958 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4959 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4960 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4961 not changing the active code.
4963 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4964 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4966 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4967 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4969 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4972 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4973 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4974 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4975 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4976 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4977 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4978 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4979 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4980 the text comparison.
4982 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4983 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4984 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4985 The same fix has been applied.
4991 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4992 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4995 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4996 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4998 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5000 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5001 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5002 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5003 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5004 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5006 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5007 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5008 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5009 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5012 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5020 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5021 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5023 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5025 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5027 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5028 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5029 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5031 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5032 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5033 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5035 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5036 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5039 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5040 ${stat: expansion item.
5042 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5043 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5045 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5046 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5049 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5051 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5054 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5055 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5057 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5059 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5060 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5061 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5062 the end of the subprocess.
5064 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5065 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5066 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5067 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5068 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5070 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5072 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5074 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5075 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5077 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5079 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5081 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5082 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5085 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5087 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5088 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5089 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5091 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5092 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5094 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5095 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5097 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5098 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5100 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5101 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5103 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5104 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5105 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5106 contributed by a Radius user.
5108 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5109 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5111 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5112 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5114 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5117 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5118 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5121 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5122 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5123 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5124 header lines when this was not necessary.
5126 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5128 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5129 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5130 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5133 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5136 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5137 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5138 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5139 return code was incorrect.
5141 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5143 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5145 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5147 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5149 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5150 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5151 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5152 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5153 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5156 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5158 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5159 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5160 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5161 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5162 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5163 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5164 which is clearly wrong.
5166 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5168 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5169 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5170 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5173 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5174 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5176 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5178 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5179 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5181 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5182 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5184 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5185 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5187 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5188 recipients, not senders.
5190 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5191 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5193 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5195 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5197 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5198 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5199 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5200 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5202 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5204 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5205 clock is set back in time.
5207 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5208 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5210 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5211 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5213 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5214 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5217 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5218 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5221 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5224 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5226 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5227 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5228 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5230 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5231 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5232 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5233 helo verification defer as a failure.
5235 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5236 actual error message.
5242 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5244 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5245 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5246 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5247 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5249 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5251 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5252 can still be requested.
5254 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5255 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5256 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5257 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5259 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5260 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5261 circumstances, but probably never did.
5263 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5264 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5265 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5268 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5270 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5271 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5273 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5275 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5277 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5278 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5279 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5280 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5281 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5282 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5284 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5285 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5286 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5287 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5288 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5289 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5291 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5292 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5294 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5295 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5297 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5298 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5300 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5302 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5304 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5306 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5308 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5310 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5312 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5314 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5315 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5316 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5318 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5319 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5320 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5321 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5323 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5324 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5325 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5327 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5328 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5329 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5330 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5332 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5333 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5336 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5337 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5338 should work with maildirs and everything.
5340 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5341 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5343 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5346 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5347 function for BDB 4.3.
5349 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5351 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5352 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5355 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5356 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5357 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5358 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5359 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5360 formatting function string_vformat().
5362 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5363 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5364 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5365 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5366 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5367 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5368 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5369 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5371 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5372 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5375 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5376 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5378 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5379 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5380 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5381 test. It is now used for both.
5383 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5384 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5385 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5386 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5387 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5388 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5390 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5391 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5392 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5395 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5396 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5397 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5399 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5400 experimental DomainKeys support:
5402 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5403 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5404 the control was given.
5406 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5408 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5410 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5412 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5413 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5414 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5417 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5418 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5419 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5420 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5421 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5422 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5425 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5426 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5427 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5428 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5429 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5430 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5432 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5433 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5434 do -d+all out of habit.
5436 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5437 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5440 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5441 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5442 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5443 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5444 record types that Exim uses.
5446 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5447 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5448 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5449 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5450 non-existent file that was broken.
5452 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5453 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5455 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5456 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5457 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5459 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5461 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5462 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5463 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5464 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5465 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5468 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5469 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5470 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5471 at a slight CPU cost.
5473 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5474 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5476 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5479 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5481 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5482 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5488 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5489 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5491 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5493 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5495 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5496 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5498 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5499 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5500 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5501 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5502 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5503 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5506 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5507 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5508 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5509 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5512 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5513 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5514 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5515 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5516 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5517 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5518 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5521 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5522 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5524 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5525 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5526 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5527 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5528 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5529 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5531 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5532 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5533 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5534 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5536 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5539 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5540 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5542 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5543 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5544 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5545 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5548 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5550 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5551 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5553 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5554 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5555 to what was transported.)
5557 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5559 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5560 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5561 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5562 spamd_address settings.
5564 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5565 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5566 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5567 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5568 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5570 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5572 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5573 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5574 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5575 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5576 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5578 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5579 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5581 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5582 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5583 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5584 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5585 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5586 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5587 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5590 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5591 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5592 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5593 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5594 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5595 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5596 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5599 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5601 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5602 driver and ACL definitions.
5604 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5605 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5607 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5608 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5609 understands it better than I do:
5611 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5612 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5614 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5615 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5616 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5617 => three warnings about OTP not working
5618 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5620 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5621 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5622 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5623 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5625 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5626 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5628 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5629 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5630 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5632 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5633 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5636 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5637 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5640 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5641 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5642 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5644 warn !verify = sender
5645 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5647 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5648 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5650 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5652 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5653 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5655 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5656 nomenclature these days.)
5658 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5659 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5661 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5662 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5663 . First host does not offer TLS;
5664 . First host accepts first address;
5665 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5666 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5667 . Second host accepts second address.
5668 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5669 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5672 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5673 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5674 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5675 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5676 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5678 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5679 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5681 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5682 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5684 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5685 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5686 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5688 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5689 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5692 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5694 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5695 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5696 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5697 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5698 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5699 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5700 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5702 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5703 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5704 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5705 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5706 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5708 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5709 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5712 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5713 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5714 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5715 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5716 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5717 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5719 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5721 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5722 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5723 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5724 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5725 printable escape sequences.
5727 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5728 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5731 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5732 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5735 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5736 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5737 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5738 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5739 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5741 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5742 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5743 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5745 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5747 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5748 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5751 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5752 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5753 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5754 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5755 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5756 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5757 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5758 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5759 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5762 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5763 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5764 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5765 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5769 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5770 ----------------------------------------
5772 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5773 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5774 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5775 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5776 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5777 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5780 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5781 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5782 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5783 historical information.
5789 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5791 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5792 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5794 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5795 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5798 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5799 filter fails to execute.
5801 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5802 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5803 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5804 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5805 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5807 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5809 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5810 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5811 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5812 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5814 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5815 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5816 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5817 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5818 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5820 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5822 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5824 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5825 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5826 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5827 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5829 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5830 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5831 sender verification.
5833 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5834 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5836 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5838 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5841 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5842 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5844 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5845 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5847 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5848 information about exactly what failed.
5850 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5852 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5853 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5854 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5856 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5857 It is now set to "smtps".
5859 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5860 ignore_target_hosts.
5862 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5863 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5864 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5865 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5868 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5869 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5870 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5872 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5873 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5874 wake it up if nothing else does.
5876 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5877 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5878 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5881 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5882 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5884 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5886 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5887 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5888 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5889 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5890 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5891 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5892 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5893 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5895 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5896 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5897 than one IP address.
5899 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5900 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5901 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5902 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5904 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5905 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5906 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5907 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5908 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5911 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5912 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5913 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5914 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5916 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5917 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5920 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5921 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5922 $sender_host_address.
5924 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5925 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5926 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5927 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5928 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5931 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5933 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5934 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5936 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5937 just the host names, not the priorities.
5939 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5940 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5941 controlled by a keyword.
5943 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5944 multiple records are returned.
5946 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5947 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5950 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5952 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5953 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5955 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5956 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5957 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5959 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5961 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5963 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5965 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5966 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5967 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5968 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5969 because the tests only now provoked it.
5971 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5972 (this can affect the format of dates).
5974 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5975 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5976 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5977 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5979 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5981 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5982 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5983 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5984 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5986 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5987 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5988 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5990 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5993 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5994 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5995 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5996 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5997 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5998 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6001 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6002 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6003 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6006 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6007 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6008 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6010 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6011 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6012 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6013 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6014 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6015 so I produce this patch..."
6017 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6018 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6021 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6022 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6023 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6024 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6027 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6029 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6030 long debug lines gets shown.
6032 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6033 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6035 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6037 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6038 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6039 of $primary_hostname.
6041 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6042 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6043 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6044 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6045 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6046 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6047 by change 4.50/55 above.
6049 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6050 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6051 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6052 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6053 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6054 running as the user.
6057 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6058 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6059 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6062 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6063 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6065 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6066 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6067 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6068 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6069 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6071 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6072 This has been fixed.
6074 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6075 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6076 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6077 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6080 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6082 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6083 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6084 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6085 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6087 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6088 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6090 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6091 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6092 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6094 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6095 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6096 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6099 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6100 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6101 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6103 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6104 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6105 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6106 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6108 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6109 during host lookups.
6111 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6112 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6114 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6116 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6117 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6118 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6119 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6120 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6123 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6124 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6126 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6127 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6128 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6130 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6132 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6133 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6134 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6135 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6136 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6137 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6140 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6141 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6142 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6143 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6144 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6146 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6149 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6151 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6152 "vacation" handling.
6154 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6155 OS variants using glibc.
6157 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6160 ----------------------------------------------------
6161 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6162 ----------------------------------------------------
6168 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6169 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6172 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6173 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6176 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6177 filter fails to execute.
6179 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6180 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6181 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6182 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6183 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6185 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6186 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6187 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6188 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6190 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6191 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6192 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6193 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6194 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6196 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6198 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6199 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6200 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6201 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6203 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6204 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6205 sender verification.
6207 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6208 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6210 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6211 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6213 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6214 ignore_target_hosts.
6216 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6217 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6218 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6219 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6222 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6223 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6224 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6226 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6227 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6228 wake it up if nothing else does.
6230 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6231 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6232 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6235 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6236 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6238 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6240 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6241 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6244 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6245 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6248 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6249 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6250 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6251 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6252 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6255 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6256 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6259 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6260 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6261 $sender_host_address.
6263 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6265 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6266 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6267 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6269 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6272 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6273 (this can affect the format of dates).
6275 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6276 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6277 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6278 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6280 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6281 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6282 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6284 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6285 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6286 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6287 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6289 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6290 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6291 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6293 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6296 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6297 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6298 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6299 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6300 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6301 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6304 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6305 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6306 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6307 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6310 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6311 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6312 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6313 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6314 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6315 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6316 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6318 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6319 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6320 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6321 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6322 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6323 running as the user.
6326 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6327 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6328 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6331 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6332 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6333 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6334 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6335 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6337 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6338 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6339 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6340 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6343 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6344 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6345 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6346 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6347 because the tests only now provoked it.
6353 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6354 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6355 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6356 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6357 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6358 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6359 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6361 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6362 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6365 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6367 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6369 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6370 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6373 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6374 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6375 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6376 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6377 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6379 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6380 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6382 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6384 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6386 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6389 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6390 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6392 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6393 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6394 affecting debugging statements).
6396 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6398 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6399 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6400 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6401 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6402 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6403 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6404 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6405 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6406 after the received time, and all would be well.
6408 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6409 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6410 condition in an expansion string.
6412 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6414 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6415 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6416 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6417 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6418 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6419 job under whatever limits there are.
6421 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6423 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6426 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6427 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6428 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6429 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6432 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6433 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6434 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6435 binary data in such strings.
6437 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6439 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6440 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6441 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6442 failure, which is pointless.
6444 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6446 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6448 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6449 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6450 Sender: header lines.
6452 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6453 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6454 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6456 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6457 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6458 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6459 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6460 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6463 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6464 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6465 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6466 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6467 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6469 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6470 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6471 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6474 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6475 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6477 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6478 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6480 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6482 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6484 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6486 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6489 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6491 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6493 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6494 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6495 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6496 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6498 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6499 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6505 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6506 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6507 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6509 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6510 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6511 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6512 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6513 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6514 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6516 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6517 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6518 verification failure".
6520 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6521 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6522 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6523 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6525 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6526 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6527 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6528 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6529 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6530 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6531 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6532 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6533 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6534 treated as a timeout.
6536 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6537 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6538 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6539 not set for Exim filters).
6541 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6542 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6543 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6545 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6547 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6548 try to make them clearer.
6550 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6551 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6553 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6555 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6557 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6558 only the Cygwin environment.
6560 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6561 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6562 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6563 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6564 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6566 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6567 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6568 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6569 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6570 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6571 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6572 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6574 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6575 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6577 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6579 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6580 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6581 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6583 To: susanne@some.where
6585 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6586 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6587 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6588 of addresses in From: header lines).
6590 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6591 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6592 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6594 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6595 treated as non-personal.
6597 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6598 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6600 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6602 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6604 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6605 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6606 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6608 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6609 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6611 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6612 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6613 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6614 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6615 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6616 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6618 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6619 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6620 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6621 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6622 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6623 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6624 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6625 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6627 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6629 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6630 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6632 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6633 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6634 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6636 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6637 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6639 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6640 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6641 rather than long int.
6643 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6645 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6651 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6652 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6653 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6654 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6655 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6656 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6662 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6663 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6665 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6666 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6667 socklen_t is defined.
6669 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6672 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6675 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6676 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6677 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6678 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6679 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6681 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6682 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6683 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6684 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6686 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6687 of flapping under certain conditions.
6689 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6690 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6691 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6693 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6695 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6697 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6698 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6699 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6700 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6702 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6703 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6704 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6705 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6706 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6707 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6708 preserved with the message after it was received.
6710 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6711 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6712 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6713 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6714 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6715 test suite worked just fine.
6717 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6718 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6719 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6721 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6722 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6725 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6726 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6727 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6728 does not fully solve it.
6730 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6731 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6732 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6733 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6734 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6736 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6737 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6738 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6740 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6741 string, for example:
6743 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6745 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6746 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6747 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6748 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6749 the routers could not see them.
6751 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6752 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6754 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6755 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6758 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6759 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6760 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6761 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6762 that needed quoting.
6764 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6765 was not being matched caselessly.
6767 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6770 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6771 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6772 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6773 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6774 when use_sender is false.
6776 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6778 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6780 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6782 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6783 the configuration file.
6785 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6786 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6788 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6790 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6791 bytes in the message body.
6793 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6794 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6797 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6799 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6801 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6802 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6803 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6804 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6811 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6812 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6814 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6815 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6816 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6817 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6818 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6820 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6821 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6823 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6824 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6825 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6827 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6828 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6829 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6831 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6834 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6835 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6836 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6837 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6838 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6839 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6840 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6846 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6847 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6848 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6849 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6850 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6851 default (and expected) setting.
6853 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6854 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6855 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6856 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6858 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6859 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6861 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6864 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6865 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6866 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6867 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6868 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6869 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6871 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6872 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6873 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6875 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6876 part (NOT match_host).
6878 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6880 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6881 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6882 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6883 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6884 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6885 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6886 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6887 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6888 the same named file.
6890 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6891 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6894 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6895 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6896 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6897 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6900 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6901 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6902 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6904 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6906 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6908 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6910 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6911 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6913 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6914 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6915 before starting the TLS session.
6917 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6919 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6920 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6922 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6923 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6924 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6925 colon in the middle).
6931 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6932 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6933 multiple configurations are in use.
6935 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6936 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6937 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6938 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6939 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6940 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6942 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6943 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6945 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6946 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6947 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6949 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6950 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6953 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6954 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6956 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6958 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6959 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6961 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6969 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6970 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6971 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6972 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6973 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6975 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6978 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6979 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6980 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6981 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6982 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6983 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6985 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6986 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6987 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6988 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6989 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6990 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6991 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6994 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6995 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6996 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6997 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6998 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7000 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7002 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7003 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7004 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7006 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7008 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7009 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7010 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7013 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7014 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7016 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7017 Three changes have been made:
7019 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7020 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7021 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7022 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7023 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7025 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7028 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7029 the modified behaviour.
7035 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7038 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7039 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7041 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7042 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7043 try to track down a specific problem.
7045 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7046 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7047 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7049 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7052 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7053 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7054 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7055 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7056 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7057 some earlier ones do not.
7059 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7061 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7062 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7063 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7064 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7065 address literals are enabled, of course).
7067 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7069 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7070 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7071 by a command such as
7075 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7077 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7079 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7080 remained set. It is now erased.
7082 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7083 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7085 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7086 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7087 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7088 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7089 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7090 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7091 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7092 appropriate error code.
7094 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7095 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7096 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7097 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7098 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7099 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7101 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7102 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7103 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7105 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7106 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7107 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7108 terminate the header.
7110 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7111 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7112 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7114 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7115 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7116 (4.30/29). In particular:
7118 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7121 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7122 to write a maildirsize file.
7124 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7125 the transport, the new value overrides.
7127 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7130 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7131 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7132 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7135 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7136 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7137 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7140 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7141 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7142 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7144 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7145 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7148 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7149 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7150 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7152 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7154 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7156 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7158 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7159 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7162 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7163 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7164 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7165 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7166 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7167 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7168 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7171 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7172 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7173 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7174 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7175 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7178 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7179 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7180 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7181 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7182 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7183 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7184 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7185 cached value only when the same options are set.
7187 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7189 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7190 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7191 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7192 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7193 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7195 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7196 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7197 it is clearly obsolete.
7199 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7202 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7203 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7204 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7207 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7208 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7209 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7210 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7211 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7213 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7214 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7215 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7216 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7218 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7220 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7222 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7223 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7226 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7227 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7228 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7229 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7230 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7231 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7234 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7235 with the -f command-line option.
7237 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7238 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7239 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7240 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7241 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7242 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7244 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7245 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7248 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7249 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7250 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7251 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7252 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7253 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7254 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7255 buffer is too small.
7257 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7258 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7260 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7261 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7262 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7263 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7264 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7265 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7266 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7267 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7268 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7270 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7271 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7272 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7274 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7275 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7278 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7279 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7280 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7281 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7282 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7284 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7285 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7286 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7287 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7290 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7292 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7294 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7295 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7297 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7298 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7299 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7301 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7302 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7303 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7304 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7305 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7307 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7308 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7309 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7310 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7311 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7312 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7313 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7315 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7316 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7317 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7318 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7319 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7320 the test of how many are available.
7322 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7323 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7324 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7325 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7326 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7327 new message is started.
7329 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7330 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7332 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7333 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7335 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7336 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7337 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7340 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7341 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7342 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7343 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7344 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7345 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7346 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7348 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7349 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7350 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7351 interpreted as octal.
7353 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7356 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7357 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7358 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7359 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7360 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7361 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7363 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7364 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7365 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7366 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7368 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7369 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7370 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7371 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7373 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7374 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7377 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7378 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7380 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7382 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7383 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7384 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7385 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7387 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7388 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7389 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7390 supplied", which is not helpful.
7392 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7393 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7394 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7396 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7397 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7398 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7399 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7400 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7401 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7402 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7403 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7405 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7406 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7407 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7408 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7409 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7411 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7412 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7413 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7414 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7415 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7416 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7418 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7419 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7420 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7422 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7424 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7425 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7426 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7429 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7431 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7432 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7433 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7434 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7435 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7436 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7437 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7438 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7440 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7441 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7442 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7443 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7444 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7446 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7449 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7450 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7451 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7452 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7453 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7454 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7455 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7456 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7457 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7463 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7464 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7465 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7467 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7470 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7471 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7472 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7474 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7475 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7476 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7477 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7478 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7479 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7481 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7482 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7483 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7484 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7485 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7486 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7487 the Exim test suite.
7489 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7490 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7491 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7492 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7494 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7495 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7496 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7497 specify it in this variable.
7499 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7500 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7501 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7502 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7504 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7505 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7506 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7507 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7509 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7510 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7511 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7512 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7513 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7515 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7517 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7520 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7521 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7522 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7523 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7524 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7526 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7527 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7529 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7530 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7531 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7532 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7533 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7535 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7536 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7538 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7539 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7540 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7542 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7543 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7545 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7546 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7548 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7549 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7550 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7552 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7553 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7555 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7556 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7557 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7558 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7560 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7562 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7563 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7564 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7565 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7567 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7569 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7570 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7572 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7574 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7575 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7576 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7577 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7578 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7579 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7581 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7583 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7584 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7587 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7589 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7590 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7592 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7593 550 Sender verify failed
7595 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7596 the final line of the response.
7598 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7599 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7600 all other user lookups.
7602 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7605 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7606 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7607 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7608 result into an int without checking.
7610 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7611 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7612 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7614 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7615 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7616 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7617 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7619 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7622 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7623 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7625 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7626 to the empty sender.
7628 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7629 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7630 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7631 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7632 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7633 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7634 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7637 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7638 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7639 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7640 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7643 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7644 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7646 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7649 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7650 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7652 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7654 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7655 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7658 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7659 as soon as it is encountered.
7661 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7663 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7666 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7667 recognizes a tab character.
7669 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7670 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7671 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7672 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7674 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7676 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7679 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7681 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7683 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7684 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7687 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7688 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7689 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7690 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7691 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7693 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7694 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7696 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7697 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7698 list (.included file names were always shown).
7700 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7701 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7702 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7705 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7706 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7708 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7710 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7712 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7714 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7715 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7716 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7717 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7718 failures to open the logs.
7720 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7721 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7722 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7723 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7724 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7725 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7726 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7732 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7733 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7734 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7737 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7738 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7739 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7741 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7742 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7743 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7745 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7746 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7747 causing some misleading effects.
7749 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7750 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7751 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7753 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7754 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7755 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7756 queue-runner function directly.
7762 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7765 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7766 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7767 was always written to the default place.
7769 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7770 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7771 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7773 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7775 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7777 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7778 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7779 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7781 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7782 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7785 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7786 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7787 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7789 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7790 command line option is disabled.
7792 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7793 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7795 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7797 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7799 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7800 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7802 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7804 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7805 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7806 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7807 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7808 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7809 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7811 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7812 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7815 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7816 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7818 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7819 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7821 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7822 received was valid base64.
7824 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7825 name of the variable that was being set.
7827 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7829 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7830 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7831 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7832 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7833 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7834 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7836 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7838 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7839 nor realm was specified.
7841 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7842 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7843 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7844 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7846 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7847 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7848 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7850 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7851 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7852 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7854 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7855 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7856 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7857 some systems use these upper case variants.
7859 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7860 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7861 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7862 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7864 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7866 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7867 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7869 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7870 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7873 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7875 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7876 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7877 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7878 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7880 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7883 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7884 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7885 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7887 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7888 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7890 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7891 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7892 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7893 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7895 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7896 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7897 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7899 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7901 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7902 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7903 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7904 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7907 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7908 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7909 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7911 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7913 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7914 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7916 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7917 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7919 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7920 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7921 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7922 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7923 when emails are that large.
7930 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7931 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7933 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7934 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7935 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7937 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7938 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7939 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7941 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7942 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7943 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7944 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7945 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7947 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7948 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7949 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7950 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7951 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7954 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7955 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7956 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7957 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7958 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7959 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7960 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7961 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7962 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7963 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7964 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7965 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7966 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7967 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7969 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7970 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7973 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7974 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7975 error should be diagnosed.
7977 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7978 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7979 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7980 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7981 appeared instead of "NULL".
7983 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7984 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7985 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7986 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7987 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7988 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7991 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7992 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7993 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7999 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8000 or receiver verification errors.
8002 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8005 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8006 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8007 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8008 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8010 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8011 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8012 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8013 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8014 shouldn't happen again.
8016 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8017 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8018 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8020 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8021 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8023 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8025 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8026 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8028 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8029 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8032 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8033 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8034 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8036 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8037 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8038 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8039 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8041 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8042 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8043 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8044 to define what should happen).
8046 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8047 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8048 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8050 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8052 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8054 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8055 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8057 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8058 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8059 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8060 structure in all cases.
8062 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8063 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8064 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8065 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8067 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8068 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8071 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8072 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8074 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8075 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8077 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8078 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8079 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8081 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8082 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8083 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8085 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8086 the book and for uniformity.
8088 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8090 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8091 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8092 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8093 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8094 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8095 non-existent command as the problem.
8097 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8098 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8099 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8101 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8103 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8104 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8105 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8107 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8108 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8109 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8110 timestamps using strftime().
8112 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8113 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8115 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8116 transport-time rewrites.
8118 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8119 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8120 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8121 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8123 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8124 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8126 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8127 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8128 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8129 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8132 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8133 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8134 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8135 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8136 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8137 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8138 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8140 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8141 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8142 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8143 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8144 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8146 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8147 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8148 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8149 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8150 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8151 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8152 remaining text gets split now.
8154 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8155 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8156 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8157 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8159 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8160 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8161 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8162 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8165 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8166 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8167 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8168 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8169 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8170 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8171 passed through if needed.
8173 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8174 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8175 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8176 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8177 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8178 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8180 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8181 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8182 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8183 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8184 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8186 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8187 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8188 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8189 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8190 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8192 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8193 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8196 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8197 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8198 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8199 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8200 mayhem of various kinds.
8202 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8203 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8204 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8205 the right test for positive values.
8207 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8208 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8209 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8210 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8211 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8212 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8213 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8214 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8215 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8216 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8219 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8222 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8223 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8226 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8227 the existing equality matching.
8229 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8230 dealing with inode numbers.
8232 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8233 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8234 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8236 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8237 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8238 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8239 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8242 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8243 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8244 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8245 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8246 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8247 relay addresses has also been removed.
8249 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8251 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8252 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8253 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8255 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8256 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8257 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8258 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8259 processing applies to CR:
8261 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8262 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8264 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8265 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8266 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8267 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8269 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8270 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8271 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8273 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8274 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8275 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8276 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8277 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8278 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8281 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8284 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8285 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8286 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8287 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8290 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8292 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8294 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8296 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8297 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8298 not considered personal.
8300 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8302 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8304 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8306 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8307 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8308 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8309 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8310 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8311 header lines, and spool format errors.
8313 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8314 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8315 for more flexibility.
8317 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8318 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8319 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8321 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8324 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8325 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8326 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8327 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8328 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8329 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8330 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8331 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8332 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8334 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8335 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8336 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8337 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8338 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8339 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8340 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8342 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8343 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8344 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8346 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8347 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8348 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8349 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8350 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8351 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8352 instead of killing the process with assert().
8354 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8355 than Unicode encoding.
8357 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8358 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8359 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8360 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8362 77. Added process_log_path.
8364 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8365 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8367 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8368 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8370 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8371 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8372 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8374 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8375 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8376 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8377 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8378 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8381 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8382 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8385 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8386 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8387 they will be used during message reception.
8393 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.