1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
301 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
302 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
303 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
305 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
307 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
308 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
311 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
312 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
313 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
315 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
317 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
319 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
320 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
321 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
323 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
324 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
325 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
327 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
328 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
330 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
331 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
334 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
335 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
336 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
337 should both provide the file and set the option.
338 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
340 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
341 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
343 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
344 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
345 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
346 Authentication-Results: header.
348 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
349 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
350 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
351 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
353 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
354 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
355 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
356 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
357 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
358 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
359 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
361 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
362 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
363 copies while it is still usable.
365 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
366 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
367 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
369 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
370 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
372 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
373 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
374 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
375 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
377 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
378 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
379 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
382 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
383 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
384 - the pipe transport command
385 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
386 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
388 - paths used by single-key lookups
389 Previously this was permitted.
391 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
392 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
393 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
394 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
396 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
397 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
398 support larger malloc requests.
400 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
401 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
402 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
403 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
405 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
406 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
407 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
408 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
411 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
412 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
413 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
414 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
415 data being length-specified.
417 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
418 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
419 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
420 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
422 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
423 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
424 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
425 not being properly tracked.
427 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
428 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
429 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
430 minute could be seen.
432 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
433 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
434 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
436 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
437 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
439 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
440 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
443 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
445 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
446 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
448 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
449 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
450 filesystem as sufficient validation.
452 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
453 argument is supplied.
455 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
456 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
457 access under Exim's current working directory.
459 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
460 Previously no event was raised.
462 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
463 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
464 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
467 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
468 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
469 the size of the signature hash.
471 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
472 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
474 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
475 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
476 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
477 dropped between messages.
479 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
480 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
481 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
482 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
484 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
485 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
486 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
487 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
488 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
489 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
490 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
491 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
492 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
494 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
495 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
496 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
498 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
499 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
506 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
507 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
509 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
510 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
513 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
516 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
518 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
520 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
521 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
523 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
524 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
525 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
526 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
527 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
528 suitably configured).
530 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
531 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
533 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
534 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
537 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
538 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
540 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
541 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
542 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
543 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
546 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
547 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
548 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
550 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
553 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
554 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
556 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
557 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
558 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
559 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
562 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
563 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
564 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
565 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
568 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
569 shared (NFS) environment.
571 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
572 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
575 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
576 on some platforms for bit 31.
578 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
579 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
580 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
581 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
582 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
583 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
584 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
585 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
587 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
589 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
590 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
592 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
593 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
596 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
597 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
600 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
601 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
602 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
605 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
606 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
607 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
609 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
610 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
611 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
612 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
613 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
615 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
618 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
619 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
620 be requested on all coneections.
622 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
623 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
625 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
627 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
628 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
629 one for these; the option was ignored.
631 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
632 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
633 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
634 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
636 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
637 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
638 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
641 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
642 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
643 error ignored was made.
645 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
647 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
648 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
649 values, to catch one form of exploit.
651 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
652 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
653 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
655 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
656 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
659 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
660 them in our smtp response.
662 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
663 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
664 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
665 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
666 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
668 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
669 link count into consideration.
671 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
672 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
674 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
675 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
676 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
679 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
681 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
683 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
685 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
686 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
687 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
688 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
690 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
692 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
693 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
696 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
697 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
698 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
700 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
701 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
702 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
704 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
705 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
706 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
707 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
708 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
709 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
710 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
711 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
713 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
714 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
715 resulted in an indefinite loop.
717 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
718 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
719 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
725 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
726 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
728 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
729 non-signal-safe functions being used.
731 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
732 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
733 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
735 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
736 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
737 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
739 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
740 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
741 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
742 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
743 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
746 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
747 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
749 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
750 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
751 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
752 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
753 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
754 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
755 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
757 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
758 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
760 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
763 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
764 Previously this would segfault.
766 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
769 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
770 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
771 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
772 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
773 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
774 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
776 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
778 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
779 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
780 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
781 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
783 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
785 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
786 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
787 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
788 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
790 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
792 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
794 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
795 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
796 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
798 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
799 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
800 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
802 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
804 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
805 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
806 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
807 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
809 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
810 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
811 promised '?' replacement.
813 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
815 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
816 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
817 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
818 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
819 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
821 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
822 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
823 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
825 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
826 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
827 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
829 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
830 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
831 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
833 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
834 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
835 hope that is portable enough.
837 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
838 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
839 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
840 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
842 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
843 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
844 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
846 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
847 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
848 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
849 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
851 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
852 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
854 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
855 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
856 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
857 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
859 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
860 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
861 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
863 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
864 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
865 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
866 the previous G, M, k.
868 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
869 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
872 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
873 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
874 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
875 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
877 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
878 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
880 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
881 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
882 off past the nul-terimation.
884 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
885 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
886 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
887 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
888 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
890 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
892 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
893 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
894 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
897 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
898 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
900 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
901 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
902 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
904 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
905 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
906 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
908 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
909 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
915 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
916 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
917 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
918 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
919 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
920 be defined in redis_servers.
922 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
923 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
925 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
926 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
927 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
928 extant use locations.
930 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
931 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
933 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
934 Previously only the last row was returned.
936 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
937 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
938 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
939 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
942 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
943 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
944 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
945 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
946 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
947 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
948 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
949 Main pool for expansions.
950 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
951 active in the testsuite.
952 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
954 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
955 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
956 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
957 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
960 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
961 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
964 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
965 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
966 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
968 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
969 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
970 ClamAV interface method is removed.
972 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
973 rows affected is given instead).
975 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
976 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
978 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
979 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
980 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
981 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
982 for all multi-message initiating connections.
984 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
985 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
986 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
988 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
989 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
990 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
991 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
994 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
995 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
996 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
999 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1001 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1002 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1004 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1005 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1006 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1008 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1009 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1010 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1013 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1014 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1016 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1017 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1018 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1020 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1021 for the build is renamed.
1023 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1024 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1025 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1027 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1028 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1029 result replacing the original.
1031 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1032 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1033 and the resources needed to be freed.
1035 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1037 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1040 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1041 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1042 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1043 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1045 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1046 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1048 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1049 newer versions of the scanner.
1051 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1052 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1053 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1054 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1055 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1056 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1057 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1059 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1060 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1061 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1062 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1063 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1064 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1065 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1066 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1067 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1068 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1070 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1071 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1073 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1075 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1076 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1078 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1079 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1081 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1082 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1083 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1085 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1086 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1087 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1088 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1090 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1091 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1094 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1095 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1097 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1098 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1099 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1100 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1101 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1103 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1104 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1107 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1108 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1110 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1113 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1114 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1115 "bare" representation.
1117 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1118 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1119 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1120 corrupted the output.
1126 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1127 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1128 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1129 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1131 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1132 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1134 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1135 This permits better logging.
1137 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1138 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1139 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1140 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1141 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1142 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1144 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1145 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1148 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1149 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1150 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1152 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1153 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1155 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1156 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1157 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1158 client, there is no benefit for these.
1159 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1160 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1161 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1164 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1165 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1167 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1168 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1169 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1171 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1172 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1174 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1175 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1176 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1177 signature and again for transmission.
1179 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1180 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1181 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1183 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1184 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1185 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1186 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1187 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1188 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1189 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1191 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1192 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1193 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1194 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1196 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1197 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1198 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1199 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1200 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1201 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1204 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1205 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1206 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1207 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1210 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1211 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1212 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1213 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1216 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1217 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1220 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1221 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1222 banner-time rejection.
1224 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1227 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1228 is the name of a transport.
1231 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1233 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1234 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1236 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1237 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1238 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1241 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1242 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1243 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1244 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1246 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1247 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1248 initial verify call returned a defer.
1250 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1251 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1253 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1254 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1256 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1257 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1259 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1260 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1262 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1263 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1266 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1267 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1269 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1270 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1271 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1273 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1274 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1275 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1276 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1278 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1279 and confused the parent.
1281 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1282 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1284 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1287 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1288 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1289 out-of-order delivery.
1291 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1292 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1293 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1296 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1297 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1300 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1301 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1302 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1304 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1305 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1306 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1307 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1308 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1309 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1311 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1312 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1313 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1315 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1316 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1317 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1319 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1320 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1321 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1322 though a different problem.
1328 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1329 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1331 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1333 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1334 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1336 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1337 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1339 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1340 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1341 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1342 before acknowledging the chunk.
1344 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1345 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1346 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1348 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1349 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1350 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1353 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1354 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1355 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1357 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1358 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1360 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1361 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1362 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1363 body hash calculated value.
1365 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1366 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1367 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1369 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1371 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1372 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1374 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1375 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1376 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1378 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1379 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1380 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1381 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1382 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1383 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1385 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1386 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1387 past that check, despite the cost.
1389 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1390 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1391 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1393 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1394 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1395 TLS library to consume.
1397 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1399 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1401 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1402 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1403 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1404 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1405 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1406 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1407 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1409 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1411 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1413 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1414 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1415 should be warning-free.
1417 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1419 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1420 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1422 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1423 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1424 general solution here.
1426 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1427 already-broken messages in the queue.
1429 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1431 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1437 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1438 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1440 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1441 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1442 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1444 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1445 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1446 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1447 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1448 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1449 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1450 if one fails this test.
1451 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1452 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1454 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1455 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1457 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1458 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1460 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1461 in rewrites and routers.
1463 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1464 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1466 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1467 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1469 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1471 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1474 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1475 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1476 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1477 connection after a verify cache hit.
1478 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1480 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1481 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1483 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1484 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1485 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1486 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1487 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1489 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1490 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1492 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1493 Previously they were not counted.
1495 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1496 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1497 that needed the lookup.
1499 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1500 distinguished as "(=".
1502 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1503 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1505 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1507 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1508 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1510 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1511 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1513 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1514 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1517 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1518 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1519 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1520 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1522 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1524 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1525 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1526 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1528 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1529 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1530 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1533 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1534 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1535 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1538 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1539 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1540 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1542 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1543 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1546 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1548 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1549 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1551 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1552 are not in the system include path.
1554 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1555 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1556 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1557 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1559 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1560 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1561 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1563 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1565 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1566 an incoming connection.
1568 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1571 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1572 fallback to "prime256v1".
1574 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1575 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1581 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1582 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1583 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1584 client dropping the TLS connection.
1586 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1587 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1589 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1590 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1591 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1592 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1595 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1596 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1597 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1598 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1599 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1600 check on the next write.
1602 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1603 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1604 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1605 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1606 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1608 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1609 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1611 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1612 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1613 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1615 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1616 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1617 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1618 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1620 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1621 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1623 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1624 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1626 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1627 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1628 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1631 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1633 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1635 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1637 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1638 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1640 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1641 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1643 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1645 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1646 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1648 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1650 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1651 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1653 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1655 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1656 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1657 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1658 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1659 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1660 they will retry in-clear.
1661 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1662 at installation time.
1664 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1665 with the $config_file variable.
1667 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1668 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1669 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1670 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1671 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1673 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1674 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1675 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1676 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1677 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1679 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1681 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1682 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1683 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1684 list order is no longer honoured.
1686 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1687 for DKIM processing.
1689 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1690 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1692 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1693 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1694 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1695 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1697 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1698 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1700 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1701 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1703 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1704 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1706 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1708 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1709 cached by the daemon.
1711 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1712 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1714 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1715 keys are given for lookup.
1717 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1718 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1719 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1720 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1722 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1723 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1724 server-side so match that on older versions.
1726 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1727 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1728 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1730 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1731 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1733 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1734 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1735 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1736 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1737 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1738 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1739 initial truncated version.
1741 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1743 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1745 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1746 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1748 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1750 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1752 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1753 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1756 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1757 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1760 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1761 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1763 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1764 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1767 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1768 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1769 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1771 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1772 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1773 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1774 extraction. Accept either.
1780 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1783 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1785 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1788 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1789 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1790 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1791 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1793 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1794 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1795 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1797 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1798 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1799 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1802 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1805 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1806 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1807 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1808 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1809 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1811 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1812 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1813 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1815 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1817 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1818 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1820 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1821 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1823 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1826 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1827 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1829 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1830 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1831 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1833 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1834 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1835 specify a port-range.
1837 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1838 timeout value per server.
1840 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1841 now have the list separator specified.
1843 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1846 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1849 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1851 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1852 rather than the verbs used.
1854 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1855 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1857 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1859 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1860 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1862 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1863 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1865 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1866 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1868 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1870 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1872 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1873 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1874 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1875 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1877 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1879 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1880 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1882 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1883 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1885 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1887 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1889 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1891 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1892 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1894 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1895 added for tls authenticator.
1897 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1903 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1904 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1905 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1906 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1907 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1908 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1909 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1911 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1912 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1913 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1914 function when detected.
1916 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1917 cause callback expansion.
1919 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1920 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1921 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1922 instead of bool when processing it.
1924 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1925 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1927 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1929 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1931 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1933 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1934 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1936 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1937 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1938 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1939 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1940 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1941 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1943 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1944 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1947 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1948 version 3.3.6 or later.
1950 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1951 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1952 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1953 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1954 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1955 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1958 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1959 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1961 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1962 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1963 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1966 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1967 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1968 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1970 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1971 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1973 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1974 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1977 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1979 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1980 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1982 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1983 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1986 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1988 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1991 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1992 output list separator was used.
1997 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1998 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2001 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2002 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2004 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2006 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2007 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2013 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2015 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2016 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2017 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2018 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2019 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2020 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2022 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2023 utilities have not been installed.
2025 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2026 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2028 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2029 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2031 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2032 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2033 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2034 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2036 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2038 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2039 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2041 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2044 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2046 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2047 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2048 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2050 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2051 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2052 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2053 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2054 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2055 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2057 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2059 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2060 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2062 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2065 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2067 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2069 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2070 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2072 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2073 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2075 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2077 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2079 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2080 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2082 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2083 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2084 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2086 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2087 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2088 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2091 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2093 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2094 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2097 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2098 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2101 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2102 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2104 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2105 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2107 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2109 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2110 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2111 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2113 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2114 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2116 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2117 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2120 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2121 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2122 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2124 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2126 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2127 Christian Aistleitner.
2129 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2131 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2132 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2134 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2135 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2137 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2138 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2140 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2141 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2143 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2144 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2146 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2147 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2148 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2150 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2152 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2153 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2156 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2158 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2159 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2166 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2168 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2169 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2171 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2174 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2175 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2178 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2180 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2181 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2182 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2183 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2184 using channel bindings instead).
2186 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2187 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2188 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2189 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2190 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2193 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2195 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2197 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2198 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2200 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2201 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2202 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2204 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2206 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2208 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2209 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2211 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2213 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2215 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2217 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2218 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2220 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2222 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2223 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2226 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2227 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2229 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2230 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2233 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2235 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2237 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2238 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2240 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2243 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2244 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2246 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2247 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2249 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2251 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2253 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2256 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2259 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2261 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2262 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2263 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2264 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2266 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2268 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2269 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2270 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2271 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2274 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2275 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2276 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2278 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2279 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2280 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2281 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2283 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2284 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2285 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2286 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2287 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2288 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2289 delivery, as in LMTP.
2291 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2292 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2294 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2296 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2300 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2301 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2302 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2303 username as equal to the username.
2305 This change corrects that bug.
2307 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2308 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2309 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2311 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2313 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2314 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2315 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2316 NULL dereference and crash.
2318 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2320 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2321 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2322 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2324 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2326 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2327 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2328 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2329 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2330 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2331 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2332 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2333 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2334 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2335 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2336 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2338 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2339 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2341 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2342 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2345 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2346 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2347 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2348 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2349 an empty string is now equivalent.
2351 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2352 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2353 not performing validation itself.
2355 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2356 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2358 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2361 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2363 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2364 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2365 other false fix of the same issue.
2366 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2369 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2370 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2372 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2373 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2374 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2376 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2377 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2378 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2380 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2382 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2384 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2385 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2387 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2390 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2391 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2392 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2393 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2394 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2396 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2397 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2399 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2400 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2403 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2404 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2405 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2406 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2408 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2410 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2411 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2412 from multiple comments on this bug.
2414 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2416 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2417 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2420 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2421 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2423 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2424 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2430 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2432 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2438 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2439 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2440 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2442 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2444 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2447 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2449 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2451 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2453 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2454 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2456 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2457 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2459 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2460 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2462 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2463 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2464 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2466 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2468 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2469 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2471 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2473 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2475 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2476 non-compliant senders.
2477 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2479 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2480 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2481 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2483 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2484 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2485 in spool file corruption.
2487 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2488 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2489 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2492 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2493 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2494 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2496 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2497 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2499 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2501 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2503 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2505 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2506 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2507 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2509 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2510 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2511 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2512 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2514 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2515 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2517 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2518 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2519 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2520 resolver implementation change.
2522 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2523 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2525 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2527 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2529 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2530 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2532 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2533 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2535 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2536 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2538 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2539 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2540 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2541 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2542 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2544 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2546 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2547 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2548 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2550 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2552 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2553 read-only, out of scope).
2554 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2556 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2557 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2558 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2559 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2561 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2563 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2564 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2565 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2566 real issues in debug logging.
2568 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2569 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2571 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2572 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2573 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2575 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2576 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2577 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2580 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2581 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2583 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2584 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2585 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2586 needs to override this, it can.
2588 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2589 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2590 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2592 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2593 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2594 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2595 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2597 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2603 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2604 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2606 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2608 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2611 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2612 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2614 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2615 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2616 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2618 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2619 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2620 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2621 not safe for signals.
2623 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2624 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2625 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2626 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2629 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2631 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2632 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2633 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2634 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2635 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2637 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2638 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2639 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2640 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2641 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2642 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2644 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2645 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2646 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2647 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2649 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2650 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2651 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2652 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2654 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2655 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2656 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2657 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2658 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2659 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2660 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2661 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2662 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2664 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2665 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2666 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2667 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2669 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2670 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2671 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2672 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2673 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2674 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2675 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2676 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2677 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2678 details in the main documentation.
2680 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2682 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2684 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2685 repository when doing development or release builds.
2687 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2688 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2690 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2691 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2694 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2696 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2697 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2699 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2700 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2702 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2703 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2705 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2706 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2708 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2709 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2711 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2713 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2716 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2717 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2718 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2720 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2722 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2724 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2725 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2731 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2733 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2734 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2736 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2738 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2740 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2743 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2744 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2746 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2747 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2749 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2750 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2752 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2755 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2756 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2758 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2759 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2760 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2761 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2763 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2764 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2770 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2773 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2774 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2775 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2777 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2778 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2780 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2781 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2782 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2784 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2785 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2787 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2788 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2790 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2791 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2793 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2794 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2796 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2797 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2799 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2802 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2803 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2805 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2806 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2808 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2809 SQL string expansion failure details.
2810 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2812 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2813 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2815 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2816 extern declarations in function scope.
2817 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2819 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2820 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2821 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2824 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2825 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2827 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2828 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2830 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2831 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2833 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2834 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2836 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2837 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2840 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2842 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2844 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2845 Patch by Simon Arlott
2847 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2848 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2854 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2855 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2857 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2858 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2860 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2862 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2863 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2864 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2866 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2867 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2868 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2870 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2871 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2872 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2873 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2875 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2876 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2877 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2878 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2880 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2881 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2882 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2885 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2888 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2889 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2890 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2891 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2892 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2898 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2899 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2900 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2902 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2903 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2905 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2907 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2909 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2911 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2913 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2915 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2916 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2917 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2918 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2920 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2921 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2922 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2923 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2924 more caution in buffer sizes.
2926 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2928 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2930 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2932 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2934 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2936 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2938 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2940 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2941 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2942 ignore trailing whitespace.
2944 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2946 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2949 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2950 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2952 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2953 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2954 Notification from John Horne.
2956 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2959 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2960 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2963 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2966 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2967 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2968 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2970 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2971 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2972 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2975 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2976 option (effectively making it always true).
2978 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2979 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2981 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2982 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2984 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2985 run-time user, instead of root.
2987 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2988 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2990 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2991 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2994 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2995 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2996 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2998 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3000 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3006 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3007 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3010 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3011 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3014 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3015 Patch from Alain Williams
3017 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3019 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3020 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3022 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3023 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3025 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3027 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3029 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3030 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3032 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3034 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3036 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3037 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3038 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3040 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3041 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3043 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3044 Patch by Simon Arlott
3046 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3047 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3053 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3055 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3057 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3059 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3061 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3067 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3068 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3070 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3071 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3074 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3075 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3076 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3078 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3079 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3081 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3082 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3083 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3084 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3086 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3087 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3088 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3090 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3092 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3094 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3095 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3097 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3099 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3100 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3101 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3102 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3104 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3105 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3107 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3109 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3111 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3112 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3114 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3115 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3117 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3118 that they are available at delivery time.
3120 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3122 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3123 incoming_port log selectors.
3125 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3126 setting expands to an empty string.
3128 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3129 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3131 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3132 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3134 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3135 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3137 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3138 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3140 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3141 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3143 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3144 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3146 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3148 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3149 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3151 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3152 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3154 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3156 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3157 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3159 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3161 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3163 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3166 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3167 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3169 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3170 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3172 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3173 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3175 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3176 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3178 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3179 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3181 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3182 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3184 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3185 plus update to original patch.
3187 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3189 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3190 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3192 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3194 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3196 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3198 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3200 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3201 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3203 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3204 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3206 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3207 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3209 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3210 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3212 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3214 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3216 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3218 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3224 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3225 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3226 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3228 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3229 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3230 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3231 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3232 build errors in sieve.c.
3234 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3235 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3236 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3238 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3240 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3242 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3244 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3250 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3252 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3253 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3254 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3255 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3256 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3257 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3258 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3259 for iplsearch lookups.
3261 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3262 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3263 previously such lookups could never work.
3265 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3266 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3267 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3269 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3272 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3273 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3274 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3275 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3276 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3277 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3279 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3280 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3282 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3283 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3284 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3285 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3286 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3287 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3289 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3292 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3294 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3295 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3298 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3299 by clients under certain conditions.
3301 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3302 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3304 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3306 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3307 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3309 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3311 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3313 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3315 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3316 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3318 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3320 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3321 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3323 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3325 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3327 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3328 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3329 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3330 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3332 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3333 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3334 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3336 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3337 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3339 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3341 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3343 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3345 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3346 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3347 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3353 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3354 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3357 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3358 issue a MAIL command.
3360 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3362 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3364 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3365 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3366 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3367 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3368 item. This has been fixed.
3370 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3371 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3373 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3374 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3376 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3377 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3378 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3380 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3382 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3383 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3384 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3385 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3386 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3388 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3389 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3390 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3392 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3393 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3394 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3395 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3397 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3399 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3401 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3402 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3403 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3404 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3405 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3407 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3409 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3410 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3411 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3414 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3416 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3418 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3420 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3422 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3424 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3425 no_callout_flush is set.
3427 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3428 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3429 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3432 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3434 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3435 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3436 other ACL rejections are.
3438 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3439 with slight modification.
3441 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3442 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3444 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3445 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3448 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3449 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3451 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3453 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3454 expansion side effects.
3456 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3457 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3458 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3461 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3462 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3463 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3465 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3466 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3467 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3468 were accidentally chopped off.
3470 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3471 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3472 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3473 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3474 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3475 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3476 pipelining has not been advertised.
3478 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3480 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3481 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3482 This has been fixed.
3484 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3485 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3486 reported on Solaris.
3488 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3489 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3490 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3491 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3492 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3493 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3494 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3496 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3499 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3501 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3503 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3504 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3505 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3506 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3507 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3508 criteria to be more general.
3510 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3511 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3512 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3513 host_all_ignored option.
3515 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3516 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3517 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3518 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3519 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3520 is what is supposed to happen).
3522 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3523 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3524 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3525 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3526 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3529 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3530 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3531 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3532 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3533 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3534 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3537 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3539 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3540 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3542 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3543 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3545 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3547 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3549 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3550 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3551 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3552 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3553 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3554 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3555 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3556 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3557 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3558 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3559 least in a lot of common cases.
3561 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3562 advertised in response to EHLO.
3568 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3569 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3571 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3572 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3574 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3575 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3576 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3578 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3579 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3580 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3581 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3582 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3588 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3589 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3592 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3593 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3594 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3596 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3597 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3598 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3599 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3600 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3601 rather than extend the field.
3607 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3608 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3609 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3610 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3613 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3614 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3615 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3617 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3618 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3619 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3621 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3622 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3623 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3626 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3627 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3628 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3629 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3630 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3631 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3632 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3633 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3634 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3635 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3636 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3638 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3641 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3642 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3643 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3644 ignores EPIPE as well.
3646 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3647 (quoted-printable decoding).
3649 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3650 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3652 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3654 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3656 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3658 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3659 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3661 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3664 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3665 miscellaneous code fixes
3667 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3670 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3671 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3672 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3673 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3674 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3675 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3676 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3677 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3679 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3680 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3681 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3682 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3684 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3685 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3686 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3687 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3688 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3689 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3690 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3691 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3692 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3694 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3697 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3698 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3699 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3700 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3701 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3702 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3703 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3704 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3706 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3707 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3710 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3711 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3712 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3713 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3714 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3715 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3716 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3717 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3718 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3719 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3720 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3721 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3722 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3724 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3725 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3726 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3727 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3728 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3729 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3730 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3732 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3733 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3734 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3735 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3736 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3737 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3738 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3739 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3740 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3741 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3743 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3744 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3745 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3746 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3747 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3749 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3750 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3751 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3752 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3753 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3754 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3755 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3757 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3758 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3759 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3760 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3761 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3762 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3765 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3766 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3767 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3770 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3771 if any retry times were supplied.
3773 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3774 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3775 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3777 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3779 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3781 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3782 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3783 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3784 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3785 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3786 before) are ignored.
3788 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3789 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3791 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3792 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3793 committing the later change.]
3795 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3796 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3797 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3798 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3799 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3800 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3801 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3802 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3803 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3805 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3806 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3807 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3808 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3809 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3810 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3811 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3812 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3813 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3815 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3816 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3817 hammering the server.
3819 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3820 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3822 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3824 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3825 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3826 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3828 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3829 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3830 one case where this was not true.
3832 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3833 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3834 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3835 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3838 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3839 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3840 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3841 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3842 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3843 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3844 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3845 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3846 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3849 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3850 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3851 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3852 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3854 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3855 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3857 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3858 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3859 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3861 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3863 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3865 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3867 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3868 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3869 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3870 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3872 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3873 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3875 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3876 be meaningful with "accept".
3878 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3879 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3881 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3882 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3883 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3885 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3886 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3887 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3888 there is data to show.
3889 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3891 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3892 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3893 as well as the number of messages.
3895 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3896 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3897 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3899 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3900 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3901 have a flag are now skipped.
3903 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3904 Added the -emptyok flag.
3906 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3907 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3909 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3910 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3911 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3913 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3916 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3917 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3919 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3921 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3922 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3924 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3926 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3927 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3928 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3929 contravention of the specifications.
3931 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3932 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3933 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3935 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3936 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3937 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3939 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3941 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3942 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3943 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3944 some point in the past.
3946 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3947 transport during callout processing was broken.
3949 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3950 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3952 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3953 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3955 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3956 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3958 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3964 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3965 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3967 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3968 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3969 there is data to show.
3970 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3972 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3973 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3975 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3976 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3978 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3979 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3981 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3982 submissions from trusted users.
3984 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3985 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3987 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3988 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3989 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3990 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3991 there is now a framework to start from.
3993 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3994 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3995 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3997 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3999 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4001 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4003 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4004 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4005 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4007 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4010 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4011 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4012 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4014 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4015 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4016 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4019 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4020 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4021 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4022 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4023 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4025 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4026 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4028 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4030 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4031 operations in malware.c.
4033 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4036 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4037 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4038 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4041 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4042 statements to "add_header".
4044 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4045 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4047 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4048 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4051 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4055 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4056 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4057 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4060 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4061 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4063 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4064 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4066 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4067 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4068 any possible encoding problems.
4070 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4071 but not after initializing Perl.
4073 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4074 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4075 apparently, which is not desirable.
4077 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4080 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4083 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4085 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4086 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4087 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4088 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4090 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4091 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4092 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4094 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4095 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4096 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4099 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4100 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4101 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4102 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4103 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4109 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4110 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4112 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4115 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4116 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4117 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4118 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4119 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4120 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4121 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4122 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4125 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4127 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4128 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4129 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4131 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4132 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4133 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4136 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4137 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4139 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4140 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4141 option (which defaults to 0600).
4143 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4145 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4146 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4147 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4148 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4149 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4150 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4151 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4153 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4159 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4160 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4161 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4162 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4163 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4164 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4167 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4168 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4170 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4172 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4173 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4174 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4175 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4176 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4179 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4180 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4182 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4183 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4184 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4185 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4186 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4188 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4189 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4190 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4191 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4193 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4194 be the same on different OS.
4196 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4199 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4200 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4202 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4205 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4206 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4207 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4208 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4209 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4210 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4213 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4214 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4215 when Exim was called.
4217 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4218 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4220 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4221 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4222 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4223 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4225 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4226 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4227 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4228 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4231 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4232 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4233 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4235 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4236 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4237 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4239 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4242 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4243 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4244 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4245 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4246 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4247 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4248 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4249 values from the SRV records were lost.
4251 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4252 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4253 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4255 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4256 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4257 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4259 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4260 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4261 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4262 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4263 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4264 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4265 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4266 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4267 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4268 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4270 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4271 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4272 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4274 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4275 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4277 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4278 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4279 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4280 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4283 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4284 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4285 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4287 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4288 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4289 PH/23 above applies.
4291 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4292 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4293 (for which there is an explicit test).
4295 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4297 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4298 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4299 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4300 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4301 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4303 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4304 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4305 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4306 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4308 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4309 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4310 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4312 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4314 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4316 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4317 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4318 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4320 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4321 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4322 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4323 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4324 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4326 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4327 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4328 the message gets confusing).
4330 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4331 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4332 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4333 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4335 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4336 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4337 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4338 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4341 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4342 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4343 the different processes.
4345 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4347 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4349 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4350 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4352 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4353 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4355 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4356 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4357 messages matching specified criteria.
4359 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4361 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4362 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4364 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4365 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4366 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4367 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4368 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4369 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4370 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4371 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4372 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4373 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4375 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4376 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4377 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4379 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4381 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4382 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4383 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4384 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4385 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4386 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4387 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4390 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4391 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4393 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4395 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4397 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4399 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4400 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4401 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4402 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4403 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4404 size of the count of files.
4406 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4408 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4411 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4412 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4413 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4414 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4416 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4417 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4418 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4420 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4421 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4422 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4423 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4424 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4426 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4427 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4429 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4430 will now be deprecated.
4432 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4434 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4435 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4436 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4438 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4439 with very large, slow to parse queues
4441 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4443 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4445 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4446 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4447 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4450 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4451 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4452 Sieve code now uses this.
4454 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4455 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4457 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4458 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4460 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4462 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4463 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4464 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4465 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4466 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4468 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4469 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4470 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4471 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4473 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4475 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4477 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4478 is preferred over IPv4.
4480 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4481 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4482 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4483 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4484 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4485 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4486 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4488 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4489 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4490 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4492 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4494 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4495 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4496 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4497 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4498 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4499 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4500 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4501 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4502 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4503 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4504 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4506 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4507 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4508 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4514 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4516 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4517 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4519 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4520 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4521 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4523 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4525 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4528 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4531 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4532 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4533 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4536 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4537 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4539 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4540 inside the third argument.
4542 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4543 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4546 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4547 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4549 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4550 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4552 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4554 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4555 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4558 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4560 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4561 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4562 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4563 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4564 identical. For example:
4566 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4568 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4569 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4570 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4572 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4573 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4574 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4575 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4577 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4578 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4579 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4582 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4584 o fixes some comments
4585 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4586 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4587 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4588 and documents the missing references header update
4592 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4593 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4596 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4597 Electronic Mail") by including:
4599 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4601 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4602 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4603 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4604 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4605 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4607 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4609 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4611 The auto-replied keyword:
4613 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4614 message by an automatic process,
4616 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4618 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4619 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4621 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4622 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4625 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4626 to the default Received: header definition.
4628 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4630 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4631 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4632 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4634 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4635 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4636 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4638 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4639 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4640 and treats the condition as false.
4642 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4644 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4645 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4646 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4647 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4648 not changing the active code.
4650 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4651 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4653 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4654 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4656 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4659 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4660 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4661 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4662 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4663 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4664 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4665 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4666 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4667 the text comparison.
4669 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4670 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4671 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4672 The same fix has been applied.
4678 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4679 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4682 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4683 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4685 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4687 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4688 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4689 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4690 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4691 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4693 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4694 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4695 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4696 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4699 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4707 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4708 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4710 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4712 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4714 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4715 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4716 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4718 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4719 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4720 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4722 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4723 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4726 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4727 ${stat: expansion item.
4729 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4730 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4732 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4733 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4736 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4738 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4741 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4742 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4744 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4746 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4747 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4748 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4749 the end of the subprocess.
4751 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4752 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4753 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4754 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4755 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4757 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4759 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4761 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4762 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4764 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4766 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4768 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4769 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4772 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4774 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4775 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4776 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4778 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4779 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4781 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4782 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4784 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4785 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4787 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4788 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4790 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4791 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4792 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4793 contributed by a Radius user.
4795 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4796 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4798 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4799 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4801 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4804 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4805 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4808 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4809 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4810 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4811 header lines when this was not necessary.
4813 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4815 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4816 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4817 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4820 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4823 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4824 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4825 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4826 return code was incorrect.
4828 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4830 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4832 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4834 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4836 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4837 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4838 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4839 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4840 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4843 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4845 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4846 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4847 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4848 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4849 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4850 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4851 which is clearly wrong.
4853 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4855 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4856 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4857 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4860 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4861 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4863 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4865 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4866 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4868 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4869 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4871 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4872 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4874 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4875 recipients, not senders.
4877 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4878 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4880 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4882 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4884 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4885 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4886 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4887 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4889 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4891 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4892 clock is set back in time.
4894 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4895 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4897 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4898 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4900 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4901 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4904 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4905 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4908 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4911 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4913 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4914 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4915 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4917 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4918 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4919 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4920 helo verification defer as a failure.
4922 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4923 actual error message.
4929 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4931 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4932 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4933 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4934 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4936 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4938 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4939 can still be requested.
4941 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4942 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4943 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4944 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4946 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4947 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4948 circumstances, but probably never did.
4950 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4951 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4952 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4955 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4957 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4958 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4960 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4962 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4964 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4965 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4966 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4967 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4968 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4969 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4971 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4972 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4973 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4974 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4975 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4976 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4978 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4979 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4981 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4982 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4984 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4985 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4987 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4989 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4991 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4993 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4995 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4997 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4999 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5001 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5002 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5003 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5005 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5006 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5007 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5008 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5010 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5011 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5012 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5014 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5015 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5016 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5017 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5019 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5020 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5023 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5024 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5025 should work with maildirs and everything.
5027 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5028 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5030 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5033 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5034 function for BDB 4.3.
5036 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5038 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5039 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5042 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5043 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5044 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5045 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5046 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5047 formatting function string_vformat().
5049 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5050 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5051 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5052 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5053 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5054 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5055 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5056 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5058 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5059 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5062 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5063 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5065 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5066 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5067 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5068 test. It is now used for both.
5070 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5071 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5072 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5073 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5074 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5075 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5077 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5078 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5079 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5082 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5083 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5084 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5086 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5087 experimental DomainKeys support:
5089 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5090 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5091 the control was given.
5093 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5095 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5097 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5099 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5100 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5101 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5104 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5105 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5106 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5107 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5108 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5109 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5112 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5113 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5114 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5115 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5116 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5117 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5119 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5120 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5121 do -d+all out of habit.
5123 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5124 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5127 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5128 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5129 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5130 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5131 record types that Exim uses.
5133 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5134 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5135 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5136 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5137 non-existent file that was broken.
5139 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5140 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5142 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5143 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5144 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5146 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5148 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5149 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5150 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5151 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5152 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5155 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5156 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5157 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5158 at a slight CPU cost.
5160 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5161 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5163 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5166 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5168 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5169 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5175 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5176 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5178 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5180 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5182 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5183 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5185 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5186 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5187 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5188 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5189 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5190 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5193 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5194 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5195 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5196 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5199 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5200 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5201 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5202 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5203 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5204 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5205 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5208 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5209 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5211 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5212 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5213 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5214 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5215 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5216 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5218 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5219 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5220 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5221 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5223 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5226 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5227 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5229 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5230 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5231 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5232 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5235 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5237 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5238 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5240 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5241 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5242 to what was transported.)
5244 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5246 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5247 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5248 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5249 spamd_address settings.
5251 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5252 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5253 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5254 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5255 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5257 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5259 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5260 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5261 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5262 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5263 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5265 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5266 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5268 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5269 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5270 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5271 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5272 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5273 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5274 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5277 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5278 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5279 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5280 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5281 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5282 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5283 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5286 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5288 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5289 driver and ACL definitions.
5291 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5292 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5294 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5295 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5296 understands it better than I do:
5298 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5299 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5301 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5302 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5303 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5304 => three warnings about OTP not working
5305 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5307 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5308 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5309 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5310 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5312 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5313 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5315 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5316 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5317 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5319 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5320 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5323 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5324 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5327 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5328 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5329 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5331 warn !verify = sender
5332 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5334 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5335 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5337 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5339 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5340 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5342 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5343 nomenclature these days.)
5345 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5346 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5348 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5349 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5350 . First host does not offer TLS;
5351 . First host accepts first address;
5352 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5353 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5354 . Second host accepts second address.
5355 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5356 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5359 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5360 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5361 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5362 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5363 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5365 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5366 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5368 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5369 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5371 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5372 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5373 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5375 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5376 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5379 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5381 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5382 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5383 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5384 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5385 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5386 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5387 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5389 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5390 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5391 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5392 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5393 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5395 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5396 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5399 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5400 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5401 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5402 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5403 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5404 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5406 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5408 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5409 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5410 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5411 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5412 printable escape sequences.
5414 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5415 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5418 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5419 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5422 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5423 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5424 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5425 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5426 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5428 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5429 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5430 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5432 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5434 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5435 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5438 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5439 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5440 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5441 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5442 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5443 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5444 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5445 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5446 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5449 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5450 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5451 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5452 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5456 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5457 ----------------------------------------
5459 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5460 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5461 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5462 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5463 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5464 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5467 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5468 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5469 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5470 historical information.
5476 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5478 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5479 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5481 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5482 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5485 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5486 filter fails to execute.
5488 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5489 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5490 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5491 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5492 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5494 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5496 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5497 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5498 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5499 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5501 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5502 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5503 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5504 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5505 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5507 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5509 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5511 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5512 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5513 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5514 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5516 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5517 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5518 sender verification.
5520 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5521 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5523 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5525 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5528 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5529 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5531 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5532 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5534 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5535 information about exactly what failed.
5537 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5539 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5540 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5541 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5543 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5544 It is now set to "smtps".
5546 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5547 ignore_target_hosts.
5549 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5550 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5551 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5552 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5555 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5556 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5557 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5559 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5560 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5561 wake it up if nothing else does.
5563 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5564 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5565 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5568 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5569 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5571 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5573 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5574 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5575 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5576 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5577 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5578 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5579 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5580 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5582 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5583 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5584 than one IP address.
5586 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5587 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5588 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5589 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5591 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5592 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5593 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5594 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5595 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5598 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5599 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5600 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5601 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5603 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5604 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5607 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5608 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5609 $sender_host_address.
5611 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5612 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5613 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5614 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5615 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5618 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5620 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5621 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5623 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5624 just the host names, not the priorities.
5626 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5627 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5628 controlled by a keyword.
5630 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5631 multiple records are returned.
5633 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5634 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5637 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5639 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5640 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5642 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5643 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5644 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5646 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5648 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5650 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5652 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5653 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5654 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5655 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5656 because the tests only now provoked it.
5658 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5659 (this can affect the format of dates).
5661 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5662 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5663 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5664 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5666 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5668 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5669 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5670 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5671 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5673 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5674 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5675 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5677 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5680 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5681 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5682 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5683 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5684 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5685 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5688 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5689 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5690 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5693 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5694 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5695 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5697 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5698 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5699 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5700 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5701 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5702 so I produce this patch..."
5704 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5705 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5708 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5709 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5710 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5711 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5714 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5716 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5717 long debug lines gets shown.
5719 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5720 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5722 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5724 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5725 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5726 of $primary_hostname.
5728 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5729 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5730 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5731 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5732 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5733 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5734 by change 4.50/55 above.
5736 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5737 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5738 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5739 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5740 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5741 running as the user.
5744 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5745 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5746 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5749 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5750 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5752 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5753 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5754 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5755 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5756 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5758 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5759 This has been fixed.
5761 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5762 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5763 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5764 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5767 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5769 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5770 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5771 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5772 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5774 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5775 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5777 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5778 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5779 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5781 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5782 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5783 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5786 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5787 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5788 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5790 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5791 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5792 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5793 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5795 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5796 during host lookups.
5798 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5799 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5801 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5803 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5804 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5805 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5806 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5807 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5810 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5811 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5813 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5814 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5815 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5817 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5819 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5820 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5821 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5822 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5823 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5824 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5827 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5828 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5829 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5830 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5831 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5833 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5836 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5838 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5839 "vacation" handling.
5841 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5842 OS variants using glibc.
5844 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5847 ----------------------------------------------------
5848 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5849 ----------------------------------------------------
5855 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5856 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5859 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5860 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5863 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5864 filter fails to execute.
5866 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5867 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5868 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5869 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5870 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5872 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5873 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5874 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5875 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5877 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5878 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5879 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5880 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5881 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5883 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5885 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5886 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5887 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5888 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5890 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5891 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5892 sender verification.
5894 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5895 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5897 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5898 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5900 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5901 ignore_target_hosts.
5903 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5904 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5905 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5906 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5909 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5910 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5911 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5913 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5914 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5915 wake it up if nothing else does.
5917 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5918 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5919 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5922 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5923 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5925 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5927 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5928 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5931 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5932 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5935 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5936 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5937 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5938 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5939 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5942 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5943 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5946 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5947 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5948 $sender_host_address.
5950 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5952 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5953 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5954 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5956 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5959 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5960 (this can affect the format of dates).
5962 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5963 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5964 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5965 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5967 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5968 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5969 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5971 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5972 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5973 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5974 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5976 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5977 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5978 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5980 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5983 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5984 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5985 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5986 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5987 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5988 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5991 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5992 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5993 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5994 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5997 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5998 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5999 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6000 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6001 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6002 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6003 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6005 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6006 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6007 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6008 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6009 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6010 running as the user.
6013 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6014 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6015 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6018 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6019 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6020 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6021 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6022 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6024 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6025 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6026 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6027 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6030 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6031 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6032 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6033 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6034 because the tests only now provoked it.
6040 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6041 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6042 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6043 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6044 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6045 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6046 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6048 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6049 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6052 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6054 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6056 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6057 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6060 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6061 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6062 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6063 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6064 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6066 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6067 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6069 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6071 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6073 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6076 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6077 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6079 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6080 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6081 affecting debugging statements).
6083 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6085 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6086 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6087 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6088 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6089 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6090 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6091 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6092 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6093 after the received time, and all would be well.
6095 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6096 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6097 condition in an expansion string.
6099 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6101 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6102 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6103 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6104 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6105 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6106 job under whatever limits there are.
6108 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6110 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6113 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6114 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6115 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6116 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6119 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6120 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6121 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6122 binary data in such strings.
6124 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6126 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6127 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6128 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6129 failure, which is pointless.
6131 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6133 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6135 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6136 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6137 Sender: header lines.
6139 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6140 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6141 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6143 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6144 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6145 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6146 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6147 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6150 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6151 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6152 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6153 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6154 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6156 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6157 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6158 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6161 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6162 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6164 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6165 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6167 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6169 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6171 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6173 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6176 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6178 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6180 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6181 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6182 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6183 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6185 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6186 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6192 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6193 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6194 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6196 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6197 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6198 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6199 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6200 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6201 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6203 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6204 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6205 verification failure".
6207 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6208 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6209 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6210 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6212 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6213 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6214 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6215 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6216 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6217 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6218 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6219 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6220 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6221 treated as a timeout.
6223 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6224 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6225 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6226 not set for Exim filters).
6228 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6229 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6230 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6232 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6234 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6235 try to make them clearer.
6237 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6238 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6240 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6242 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6244 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6245 only the Cygwin environment.
6247 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6248 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6249 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6250 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6251 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6253 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6254 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6255 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6256 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6257 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6258 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6259 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6261 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6262 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6264 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6266 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6267 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6268 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6270 To: susanne@some.where
6272 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6273 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6274 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6275 of addresses in From: header lines).
6277 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6278 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6279 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6281 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6282 treated as non-personal.
6284 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6285 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6287 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6289 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6291 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6292 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6293 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6295 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6296 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6298 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6299 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6300 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6301 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6302 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6303 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6305 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6306 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6307 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6308 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6309 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6310 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6311 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6312 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6314 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6316 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6317 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6319 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6320 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6321 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6323 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6324 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6326 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6327 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6328 rather than long int.
6330 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6332 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6338 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6339 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6340 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6341 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6342 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6343 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6349 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6350 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6352 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6353 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6354 socklen_t is defined.
6356 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6359 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6362 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6363 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6364 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6365 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6366 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6368 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6369 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6370 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6371 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6373 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6374 of flapping under certain conditions.
6376 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6377 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6378 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6380 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6382 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6384 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6385 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6386 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6387 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6389 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6390 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6391 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6392 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6393 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6394 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6395 preserved with the message after it was received.
6397 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6398 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6399 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6400 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6401 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6402 test suite worked just fine.
6404 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6405 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6406 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6408 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6409 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6412 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6413 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6414 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6415 does not fully solve it.
6417 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6418 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6419 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6420 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6421 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6423 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6424 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6425 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6427 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6428 string, for example:
6430 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6432 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6433 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6434 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6435 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6436 the routers could not see them.
6438 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6439 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6441 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6442 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6445 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6446 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6447 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6448 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6449 that needed quoting.
6451 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6452 was not being matched caselessly.
6454 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6457 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6458 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6459 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6460 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6461 when use_sender is false.
6463 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6465 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6467 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6469 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6470 the configuration file.
6472 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6473 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6475 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6477 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6478 bytes in the message body.
6480 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6481 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6484 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6486 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6488 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6489 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6490 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6491 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6498 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6499 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6501 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6502 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6503 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6504 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6505 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6507 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6508 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6510 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6511 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6512 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6514 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6515 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6516 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6518 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6521 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6522 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6523 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6524 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6525 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6526 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6527 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6533 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6534 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6535 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6536 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6537 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6538 default (and expected) setting.
6540 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6541 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6542 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6543 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6545 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6546 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6548 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6551 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6552 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6553 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6554 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6555 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6556 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6558 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6559 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6560 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6562 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6563 part (NOT match_host).
6565 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6567 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6568 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6569 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6570 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6571 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6572 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6573 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6574 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6575 the same named file.
6577 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6578 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6581 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6582 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6583 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6584 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6587 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6588 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6589 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6591 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6593 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6595 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6597 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6598 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6600 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6601 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6602 before starting the TLS session.
6604 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6606 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6607 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6609 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6610 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6611 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6612 colon in the middle).
6618 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6619 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6620 multiple configurations are in use.
6622 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6623 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6624 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6625 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6626 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6627 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6629 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6630 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6632 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6633 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6634 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6636 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6637 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6640 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6641 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6643 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6645 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6646 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6648 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6656 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6657 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6658 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6659 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6660 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6662 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6665 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6666 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6667 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6668 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6669 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6670 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6672 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6673 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6674 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6675 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6676 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6677 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6678 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6681 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6682 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6683 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6684 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6685 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6687 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6689 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6690 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6691 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6693 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6695 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6696 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6697 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6700 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6701 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6703 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6704 Three changes have been made:
6706 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6707 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6708 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6709 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6710 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6712 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6715 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6716 the modified behaviour.
6722 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6725 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6726 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6728 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6729 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6730 try to track down a specific problem.
6732 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6733 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6734 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6736 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6739 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6740 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6741 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6742 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6743 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6744 some earlier ones do not.
6746 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6748 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6749 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6750 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6751 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6752 address literals are enabled, of course).
6754 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6756 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6757 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6758 by a command such as
6762 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6764 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6766 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6767 remained set. It is now erased.
6769 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6770 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6772 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6773 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6774 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6775 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6776 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6777 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6778 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6779 appropriate error code.
6781 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6782 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6783 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6784 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6785 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6786 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6788 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6789 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6790 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6792 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6793 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6794 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6795 terminate the header.
6797 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6798 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6799 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6801 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6802 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6803 (4.30/29). In particular:
6805 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6808 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6809 to write a maildirsize file.
6811 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6812 the transport, the new value overrides.
6814 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6817 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6818 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6819 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6822 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6823 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6824 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6827 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6828 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6829 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6831 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6832 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6835 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6836 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6837 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6839 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6841 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6843 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6845 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6846 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6849 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6850 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6851 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6852 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6853 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6854 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6855 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6858 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6859 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6860 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6861 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6862 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6865 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6866 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6867 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6868 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6869 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6870 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6871 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6872 cached value only when the same options are set.
6874 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6876 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6877 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6878 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6879 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6880 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6882 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6883 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6884 it is clearly obsolete.
6886 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6889 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6890 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6891 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6894 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6895 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6896 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6897 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6898 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6900 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6901 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6902 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6903 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6905 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6907 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6909 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6910 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6913 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6914 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6915 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6916 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6917 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6918 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6921 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6922 with the -f command-line option.
6924 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6925 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6926 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6927 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6928 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6929 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6931 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6932 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6935 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6936 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6937 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6938 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6939 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6940 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6941 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6942 buffer is too small.
6944 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6945 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6947 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6948 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6949 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6950 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6951 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6952 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6953 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6954 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6955 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6957 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6958 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6959 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6961 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6962 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6965 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6966 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6967 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6968 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6969 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6971 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6972 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6973 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6974 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6977 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6979 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6981 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6982 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6984 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6985 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6986 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6988 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6989 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6990 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6991 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6992 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6994 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6995 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6996 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6997 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6998 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6999 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7000 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7002 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7003 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7004 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7005 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7006 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7007 the test of how many are available.
7009 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7010 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7011 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7012 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7013 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7014 new message is started.
7016 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7017 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7019 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7020 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7022 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7023 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7024 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7027 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7028 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7029 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7030 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7031 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7032 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7033 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7035 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7036 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7037 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7038 interpreted as octal.
7040 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7043 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7044 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7045 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7046 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7047 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7048 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7050 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7051 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7052 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7053 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7055 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7056 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7057 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7058 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7060 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7061 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7064 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7065 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7067 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7069 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7070 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7071 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7072 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7074 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7075 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7076 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7077 supplied", which is not helpful.
7079 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7080 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7081 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7083 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7084 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7085 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7086 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7087 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7088 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7089 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7090 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7092 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7093 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7094 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7095 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7096 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7098 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7099 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7100 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7101 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7102 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7103 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7105 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7106 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7107 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7109 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7111 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7112 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7113 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7116 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7118 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7119 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7120 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7121 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7122 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7123 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7124 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7125 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7127 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7128 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7129 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7130 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7131 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7133 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7136 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7137 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7138 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7139 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7140 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7141 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7142 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7143 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7144 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7150 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7151 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7152 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7154 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7157 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7158 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7159 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7161 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7162 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7163 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7164 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7165 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7166 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7168 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7169 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7170 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7171 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7172 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7173 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7174 the Exim test suite.
7176 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7177 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7178 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7179 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7181 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7182 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7183 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7184 specify it in this variable.
7186 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7187 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7188 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7189 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7191 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7192 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7193 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7194 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7196 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7197 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7198 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7199 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7200 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7202 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7204 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7207 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7208 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7209 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7210 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7211 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7213 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7214 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7216 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7217 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7218 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7219 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7220 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7222 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7223 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7225 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7226 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7227 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7229 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7230 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7232 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7233 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7235 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7236 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7237 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7239 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7240 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7242 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7243 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7244 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7245 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7247 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7249 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7250 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7251 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7252 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7254 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7256 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7257 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7259 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7261 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7262 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7263 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7264 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7265 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7266 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7268 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7270 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7271 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7274 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7276 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7277 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7279 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7280 550 Sender verify failed
7282 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7283 the final line of the response.
7285 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7286 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7287 all other user lookups.
7289 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7292 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7293 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7294 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7295 result into an int without checking.
7297 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7298 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7299 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7301 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7302 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7303 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7304 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7306 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7309 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7310 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7312 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7313 to the empty sender.
7315 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7316 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7317 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7318 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7319 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7320 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7321 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7324 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7325 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7326 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7327 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7330 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7331 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7333 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7336 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7337 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7339 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7341 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7342 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7345 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7346 as soon as it is encountered.
7348 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7350 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7353 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7354 recognizes a tab character.
7356 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7357 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7358 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7359 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7361 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7363 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7366 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7368 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7370 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7371 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7374 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7375 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7376 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7377 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7378 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7380 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7381 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7383 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7384 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7385 list (.included file names were always shown).
7387 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7388 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7389 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7392 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7393 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7395 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7397 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7399 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7401 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7402 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7403 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7404 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7405 failures to open the logs.
7407 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7408 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7409 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7410 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7411 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7412 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7413 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7419 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7420 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7421 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7424 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7425 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7426 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7428 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7429 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7430 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7432 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7433 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7434 causing some misleading effects.
7436 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7437 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7438 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7440 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7441 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7442 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7443 queue-runner function directly.
7449 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7452 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7453 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7454 was always written to the default place.
7456 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7457 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7458 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7460 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7462 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7464 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7465 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7466 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7468 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7469 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7472 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7473 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7474 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7476 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7477 command line option is disabled.
7479 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7480 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7482 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7484 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7486 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7487 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7489 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7491 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7492 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7493 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7494 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7495 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7496 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7498 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7499 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7502 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7503 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7505 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7506 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7508 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7509 received was valid base64.
7511 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7512 name of the variable that was being set.
7514 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7516 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7517 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7518 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7519 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7520 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7521 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7523 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7525 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7526 nor realm was specified.
7528 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7529 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7530 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7531 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7533 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7534 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7535 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7537 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7538 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7539 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7541 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7542 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7543 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7544 some systems use these upper case variants.
7546 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7547 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7548 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7549 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7551 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7553 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7554 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7556 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7557 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7560 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7562 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7563 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7564 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7565 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7567 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7570 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7571 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7572 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7574 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7575 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7577 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7578 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7579 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7580 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7582 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7583 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7584 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7586 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7588 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7589 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7590 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7591 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7594 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7595 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7596 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7598 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7600 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7601 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7603 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7604 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7606 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7607 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7608 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7609 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7610 when emails are that large.
7617 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7618 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7620 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7621 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7622 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7624 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7625 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7626 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7628 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7629 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7630 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7631 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7632 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7634 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7635 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7636 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7637 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7638 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7641 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7642 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7643 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7644 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7645 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7646 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7647 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7648 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7649 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7650 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7651 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7652 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7653 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7654 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7656 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7657 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7660 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7661 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7662 error should be diagnosed.
7664 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7665 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7666 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7667 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7668 appeared instead of "NULL".
7670 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7671 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7672 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7673 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7674 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7675 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7678 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7679 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7680 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7686 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7687 or receiver verification errors.
7689 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7692 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7693 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7694 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7695 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7697 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7698 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7699 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7700 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7701 shouldn't happen again.
7703 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7704 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7705 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7707 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7708 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7710 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7712 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7713 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7715 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7716 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7719 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7720 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7721 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7723 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7724 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7725 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7726 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7728 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7729 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7730 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7731 to define what should happen).
7733 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7734 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7735 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7737 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7739 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7741 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7742 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7744 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7745 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7746 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7747 structure in all cases.
7749 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7750 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7751 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7752 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7754 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7755 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7758 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7759 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7761 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7762 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7764 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7765 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7766 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7768 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7769 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7770 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7772 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7773 the book and for uniformity.
7775 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7777 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7778 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7779 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7780 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7781 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7782 non-existent command as the problem.
7784 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7785 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7786 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7788 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7790 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7791 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7792 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7794 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7795 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7796 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7797 timestamps using strftime().
7799 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7800 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7802 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7803 transport-time rewrites.
7805 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7806 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7807 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7808 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7810 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7811 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7813 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7814 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7815 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7816 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7819 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7820 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7821 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7822 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7823 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7824 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7825 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7827 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7828 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7829 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7830 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7831 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7833 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7834 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7835 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7836 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7837 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7838 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7839 remaining text gets split now.
7841 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7842 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7843 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7844 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7846 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7847 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7848 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7849 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7852 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7853 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7854 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7855 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7856 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7857 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7858 passed through if needed.
7860 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7861 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7862 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7863 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7864 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7865 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7867 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7868 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7869 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7870 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7871 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7873 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7874 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7875 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7876 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7877 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7879 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7880 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7883 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7884 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7885 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7886 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7887 mayhem of various kinds.
7889 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7890 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7891 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7892 the right test for positive values.
7894 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7895 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7896 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7897 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7898 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7899 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7900 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7901 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7902 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7903 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7906 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7909 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7910 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7913 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7914 the existing equality matching.
7916 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7917 dealing with inode numbers.
7919 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7920 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7921 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7923 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7924 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7925 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7926 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7929 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7930 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7931 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7932 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7933 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7934 relay addresses has also been removed.
7936 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7938 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7939 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7940 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7942 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7943 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7944 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7945 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7946 processing applies to CR:
7948 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7949 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7951 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7952 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7953 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7954 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7956 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7957 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7958 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7960 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7961 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7962 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7963 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7964 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7965 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7968 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7971 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7972 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7973 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7974 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7977 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7979 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7981 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7983 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7984 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7985 not considered personal.
7987 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7989 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7991 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7993 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7994 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7995 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7996 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7997 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7998 header lines, and spool format errors.
8000 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8001 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8002 for more flexibility.
8004 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8005 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8006 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8008 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8011 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8012 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8013 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8014 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8015 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8016 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8017 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8018 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8019 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8021 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8022 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8023 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8024 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8025 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8026 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8027 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8029 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8030 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8031 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8033 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8034 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8035 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8036 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8037 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8038 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8039 instead of killing the process with assert().
8041 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8042 than Unicode encoding.
8044 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8045 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8046 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8047 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8049 77. Added process_log_path.
8051 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8052 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8054 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8055 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8057 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8058 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8059 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8061 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8062 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8063 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8064 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8065 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8068 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8069 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8072 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8073 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8074 they will be used during message reception.
8080 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.