1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6 Since Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------------
9 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
10 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
11 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
14 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
15 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
16 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
17 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
18 so could be handling tainted values.
20 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
21 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
22 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
24 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
25 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
26 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
29 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
30 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
31 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
32 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
39 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
40 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
42 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
44 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
45 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
48 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
49 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
50 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
52 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
54 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
56 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
57 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
58 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
60 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
61 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
62 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
64 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
65 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
67 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
68 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
71 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
72 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
73 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
74 should both provide the file and set the option.
75 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
77 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
78 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
80 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
81 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
82 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
83 Authentication-Results: header.
85 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
86 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
87 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
88 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
90 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
91 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
92 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
93 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
94 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
95 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
96 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
98 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
99 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
100 copies while it is still usable.
102 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
103 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
104 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
106 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
107 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
109 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
110 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
111 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
112 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
114 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
115 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
116 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
119 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
120 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
121 - the pipe transport command
122 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
123 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
125 - paths used by single-key lookups
126 Previously this was permitted.
128 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
129 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
130 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
131 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
133 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
134 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
135 support larger malloc requests.
137 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
138 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
139 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
140 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
142 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
143 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
144 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
145 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
148 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
149 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
150 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
151 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
152 data being length-specified.
154 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
155 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
156 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
157 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
159 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
160 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
161 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
162 not being properly tracked.
164 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
165 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
166 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
167 minute could be seen.
169 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
170 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
171 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
173 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
174 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
176 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
177 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
180 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
182 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
183 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
185 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
186 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
187 filesystem as sufficient validation.
189 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
190 argument is supplied.
192 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
193 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
194 access under Exim's current working directory.
196 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
197 Previously no event was raised.
199 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
200 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
201 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
204 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
205 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
206 the size of the signature hash.
208 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
209 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
211 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
212 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
213 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
214 dropped between messages.
216 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
217 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
218 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
219 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
221 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
222 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
223 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
224 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
225 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
226 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
227 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
228 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
229 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
231 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
232 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
233 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
235 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
236 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
243 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
244 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
246 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
247 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
250 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
253 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
255 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
257 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
258 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
260 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
261 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
262 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
263 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
264 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
265 suitably configured).
267 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
268 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
270 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
271 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
274 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
275 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
277 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
278 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
279 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
280 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
283 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
284 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
285 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
287 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
290 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
291 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
293 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
294 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
295 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
296 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
299 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
300 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
301 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
302 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
305 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
306 shared (NFS) environment.
308 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
309 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
312 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
313 on some platforms for bit 31.
315 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
316 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
317 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
318 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
319 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
320 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
321 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
322 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
324 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
326 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
327 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
329 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
330 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
333 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
334 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
337 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
338 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
339 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
342 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
343 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
344 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
346 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
347 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
348 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
349 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
350 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
352 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
355 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
356 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
357 be requested on all coneections.
359 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
360 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
362 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
364 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
365 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
366 one for these; the option was ignored.
368 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
369 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
370 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
371 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
373 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
374 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
375 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
378 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
379 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
380 error ignored was made.
382 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
384 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
385 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
386 values, to catch one form of exploit.
388 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
389 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
390 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
392 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
393 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
396 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
397 them in our smtp response.
399 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
400 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
401 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
402 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
403 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
405 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
406 link count into consideration.
408 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
409 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
411 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
412 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
413 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
416 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
418 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
420 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
422 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
423 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
424 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
425 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
427 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
429 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
430 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
433 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
434 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
435 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
437 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
438 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
439 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
441 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
442 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
443 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
444 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
445 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
446 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
447 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
448 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
450 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
451 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
452 resulted in an indefinite loop.
454 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
455 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
456 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
462 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
463 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
465 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
466 non-signal-safe functions being used.
468 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
469 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
470 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
472 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
473 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
474 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
476 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
477 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
478 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
479 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
480 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
483 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
484 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
486 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
487 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
488 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
489 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
490 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
491 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
492 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
494 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
495 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
497 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
500 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
501 Previously this would segfault.
503 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
506 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
507 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
508 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
509 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
510 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
511 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
513 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
515 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
516 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
517 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
518 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
520 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
522 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
523 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
524 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
525 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
527 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
529 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
531 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
532 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
533 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
535 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
536 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
537 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
539 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
541 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
542 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
543 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
544 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
546 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
547 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
548 promised '?' replacement.
550 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
552 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
553 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
554 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
555 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
556 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
558 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
559 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
560 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
562 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
563 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
564 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
566 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
567 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
568 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
570 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
571 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
572 hope that is portable enough.
574 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
575 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
576 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
577 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
579 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
580 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
581 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
583 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
584 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
585 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
586 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
588 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
589 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
591 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
592 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
593 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
594 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
596 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
597 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
598 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
600 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
601 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
602 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
603 the previous G, M, k.
605 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
606 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
609 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
610 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
611 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
612 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
614 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
615 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
617 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
618 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
619 off past the nul-terimation.
621 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
622 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
623 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
624 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
625 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
627 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
629 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
630 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
631 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
634 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
635 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
637 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
638 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
639 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
641 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
642 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
643 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
645 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
646 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
652 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
653 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
654 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
655 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
656 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
657 be defined in redis_servers.
659 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
660 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
662 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
663 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
664 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
665 extant use locations.
667 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
668 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
670 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
671 Previously only the last row was returned.
673 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
674 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
675 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
676 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
679 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
680 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
681 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
682 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
683 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
684 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
685 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
686 Main pool for expansions.
687 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
688 active in the testsuite.
689 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
691 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
692 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
693 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
694 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
697 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
698 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
701 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
702 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
703 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
705 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
706 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
707 ClamAV interface method is removed.
709 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
710 rows affected is given instead).
712 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
713 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
715 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
716 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
717 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
718 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
719 for all multi-message initiating connections.
721 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
722 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
723 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
725 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
726 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
727 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
728 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
731 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
732 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
733 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
736 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
738 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
739 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
741 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
742 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
743 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
745 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
746 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
747 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
750 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
751 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
753 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
754 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
755 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
757 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
758 for the build is renamed.
760 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
761 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
762 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
764 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
765 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
766 result replacing the original.
768 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
769 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
770 and the resources needed to be freed.
772 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
774 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
777 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
778 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
779 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
780 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
782 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
783 length value. Previously this would segfault.
785 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
786 newer versions of the scanner.
788 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
789 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
790 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
791 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
792 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
793 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
794 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
796 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
797 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
798 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
799 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
800 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
801 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
802 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
803 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
804 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
805 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
807 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
808 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
810 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
812 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
813 allows proper process termination in container environments.
815 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
816 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
818 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
819 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
820 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
822 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
823 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
824 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
825 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
827 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
828 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
831 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
832 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
834 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
835 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
836 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
837 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
838 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
840 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
841 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
844 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
845 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
847 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
850 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
851 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
852 "bare" representation.
854 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
855 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
856 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
857 corrupted the output.
863 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
864 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
865 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
866 pairs of long lines into single ones.
868 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
869 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
871 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
872 This permits better logging.
874 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
875 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
876 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
877 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
878 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
879 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
881 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
882 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
885 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
886 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
887 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
889 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
890 than 255 are no longer allowed.
892 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
893 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
894 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
895 client, there is no benefit for these.
896 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
897 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
898 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
901 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
902 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
904 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
905 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
906 erroneously found still-pending ones.
908 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
909 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
911 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
912 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
913 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
914 signature and again for transmission.
916 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
917 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
918 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
920 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
921 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
922 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
923 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
924 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
925 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
926 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
928 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
929 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
930 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
931 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
933 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
934 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
935 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
936 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
937 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
938 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
941 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
942 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
943 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
944 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
947 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
948 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
949 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
950 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
953 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
954 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
957 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
958 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
959 banner-time rejection.
961 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
964 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
965 is the name of a transport.
968 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
970 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
971 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
973 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
974 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
975 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
978 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
979 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
980 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
981 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
983 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
984 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
985 initial verify call returned a defer.
987 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
988 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
990 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
991 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
993 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
994 if present. Previously it was ignored.
996 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
997 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
999 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1000 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1003 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1004 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1006 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1007 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1008 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1010 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1011 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1012 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1013 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1015 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1016 and confused the parent.
1018 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1019 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1021 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1024 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1025 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1026 out-of-order delivery.
1028 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1029 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1030 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1033 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1034 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1037 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1038 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1039 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1041 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1042 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1043 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1044 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1045 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1046 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1048 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1049 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1050 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1052 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1053 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1054 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1056 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1057 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1058 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1059 though a different problem.
1065 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1066 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1068 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1070 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1071 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1073 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1074 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1076 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1077 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1078 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1079 before acknowledging the chunk.
1081 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1082 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1083 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1085 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1086 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1087 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1090 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1091 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1092 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1094 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1095 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1097 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1098 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1099 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1100 body hash calculated value.
1102 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1103 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1104 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1106 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1108 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1109 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1111 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1112 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1113 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1115 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1116 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1117 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1118 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1119 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1120 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1122 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1123 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1124 past that check, despite the cost.
1126 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1127 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1128 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1130 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1131 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1132 TLS library to consume.
1134 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1136 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1138 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1139 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1140 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1141 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1142 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1143 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1144 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1146 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1148 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1150 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1151 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1152 should be warning-free.
1154 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1156 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1157 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1159 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1160 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1161 general solution here.
1163 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1164 already-broken messages in the queue.
1166 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1168 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1174 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1175 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1177 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1178 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1179 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1181 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1182 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1183 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1184 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1185 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1186 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1187 if one fails this test.
1188 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1189 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1191 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1192 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1194 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1195 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1197 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1198 in rewrites and routers.
1200 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1201 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1203 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1204 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1206 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1208 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1211 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1212 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1213 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1214 connection after a verify cache hit.
1215 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1217 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1218 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1220 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1221 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1222 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1223 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1224 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1226 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1227 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1229 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1230 Previously they were not counted.
1232 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1233 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1234 that needed the lookup.
1236 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1237 distinguished as "(=".
1239 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1240 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1242 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1244 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1245 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1247 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1248 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1250 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1251 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1254 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1255 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1256 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1257 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1259 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1261 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1262 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1263 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1265 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1266 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1267 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1270 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1271 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1272 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1275 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1276 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1277 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1279 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1280 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1283 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1285 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1286 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1288 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1289 are not in the system include path.
1291 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1292 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1293 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1294 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1296 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1297 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1298 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1300 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1302 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1303 an incoming connection.
1305 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1308 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1309 fallback to "prime256v1".
1311 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1312 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1318 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1319 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1320 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1321 client dropping the TLS connection.
1323 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1324 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1326 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1327 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1328 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1329 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1332 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1333 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1334 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1335 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1336 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1337 check on the next write.
1339 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1340 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1341 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1342 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1343 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1345 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1346 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1348 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1349 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1350 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1352 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1353 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1354 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1355 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1357 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1358 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1360 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1361 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1363 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1364 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1365 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1368 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1370 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1372 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1374 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1375 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1377 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1378 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1380 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1382 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1383 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1385 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1387 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1388 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1390 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1392 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1393 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1394 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1395 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1396 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1397 they will retry in-clear.
1398 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1399 at installation time.
1401 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1402 with the $config_file variable.
1404 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1405 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1406 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1407 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1408 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1410 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1411 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1412 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1413 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1414 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1416 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1418 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1419 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1420 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1421 list order is no longer honoured.
1423 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1424 for DKIM processing.
1426 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1427 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1429 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1430 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1431 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1432 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1434 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1435 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1437 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1438 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1440 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1441 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1443 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1445 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1446 cached by the daemon.
1448 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1449 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1451 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1452 keys are given for lookup.
1454 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1455 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1456 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1457 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1459 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1460 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1461 server-side so match that on older versions.
1463 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1464 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1465 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1467 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1468 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1470 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1471 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1472 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1473 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1474 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1475 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1476 initial truncated version.
1478 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1480 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1482 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1483 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1485 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1487 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1489 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1490 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1493 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1494 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1497 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1498 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1500 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1501 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1504 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1505 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1506 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1508 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1509 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1510 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1511 extraction. Accept either.
1517 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1520 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1522 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1525 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1526 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1527 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1528 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1530 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1531 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1532 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1534 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1535 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1536 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1539 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1542 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1543 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1544 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1545 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1546 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1548 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1549 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1550 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1552 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1554 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1555 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1557 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1558 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1560 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1563 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1564 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1566 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1567 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1568 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1570 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1571 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1572 specify a port-range.
1574 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1575 timeout value per server.
1577 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1578 now have the list separator specified.
1580 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1583 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1586 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1588 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1589 rather than the verbs used.
1591 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1592 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1594 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1596 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1597 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1599 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1600 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1602 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1603 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1605 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1607 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1609 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1610 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1611 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1612 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1614 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1616 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1617 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1619 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1620 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1622 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1624 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1626 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1628 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1629 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1631 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1632 added for tls authenticator.
1634 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1640 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1641 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1642 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1643 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1644 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1645 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1646 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1648 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1649 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1650 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1651 function when detected.
1653 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1654 cause callback expansion.
1656 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1657 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1658 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1659 instead of bool when processing it.
1661 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1662 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1664 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1666 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1668 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1670 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1671 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1673 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1674 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1675 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1676 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1677 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1678 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1680 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1681 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1684 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1685 version 3.3.6 or later.
1687 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1688 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1689 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1690 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1691 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1692 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1695 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1696 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1698 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1699 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1700 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1703 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1704 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1705 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1707 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1708 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1710 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1711 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1714 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1716 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1717 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1719 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1720 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1723 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1725 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1728 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1729 output list separator was used.
1734 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1735 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1738 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1739 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1741 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1743 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1744 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1750 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1752 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1753 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1754 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1755 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1756 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1757 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1759 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1760 utilities have not been installed.
1762 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1763 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1765 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1766 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1768 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1769 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1770 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1771 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1773 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1775 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1776 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1778 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1781 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1783 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1784 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1785 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1787 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1788 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1789 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1790 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1791 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1792 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1794 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1796 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1797 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1799 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1802 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1804 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1806 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1807 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1809 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1810 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1812 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1814 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1816 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1817 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1819 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1820 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1821 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1823 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1824 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1825 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1828 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1830 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1831 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1834 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1835 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1838 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1839 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1841 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1842 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1844 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1846 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1847 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1848 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1850 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1851 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1853 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1854 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1857 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1858 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1859 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1861 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1863 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1864 Christian Aistleitner.
1866 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1868 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1869 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1871 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1872 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1874 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1875 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1877 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1878 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1880 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1881 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1883 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1884 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1885 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1887 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1889 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1890 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1893 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1895 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1896 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1903 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1905 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1906 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1908 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1911 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1912 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1915 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1917 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1918 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1919 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1920 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1921 using channel bindings instead).
1923 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1924 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1925 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1926 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1927 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1930 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1932 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1934 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1935 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1937 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1938 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1939 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1941 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1943 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1945 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1946 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1948 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1950 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1952 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1954 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1955 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1957 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1959 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1960 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1963 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1964 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1966 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1967 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1970 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1972 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1974 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1975 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1977 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1980 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1981 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1983 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1984 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1986 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1988 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1990 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1993 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1996 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1998 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1999 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2000 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2001 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2003 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2005 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2006 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2007 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2008 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2011 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2012 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2013 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2015 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2016 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2017 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2018 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2020 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2021 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2022 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2023 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2024 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2025 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2026 delivery, as in LMTP.
2028 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2029 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2031 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2033 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2037 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2038 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2039 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2040 username as equal to the username.
2042 This change corrects that bug.
2044 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2045 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2046 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2048 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2050 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2051 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2052 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2053 NULL dereference and crash.
2055 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2057 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2058 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2059 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2061 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2063 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2064 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2065 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2066 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2067 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2068 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2069 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2070 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2071 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2072 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2073 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2075 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2076 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2078 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2079 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2082 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2083 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2084 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2085 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2086 an empty string is now equivalent.
2088 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2089 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2090 not performing validation itself.
2092 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2093 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2095 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2098 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2100 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2101 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2102 other false fix of the same issue.
2103 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2106 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2107 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2109 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2110 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2111 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2113 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2114 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2115 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2117 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2119 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2121 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2122 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2124 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2127 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2128 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2129 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2130 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2131 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2133 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2134 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2136 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2137 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2140 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2141 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2142 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2143 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2145 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2147 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2148 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2149 from multiple comments on this bug.
2151 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2153 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2154 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2157 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2158 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2160 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2161 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2167 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2169 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2175 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2176 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2177 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2179 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2181 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2184 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2186 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2188 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2190 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2191 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2193 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2194 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2196 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2197 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2199 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2200 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2201 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2203 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2205 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2206 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2208 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2210 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2212 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2213 non-compliant senders.
2214 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2216 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2217 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2218 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2220 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2221 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2222 in spool file corruption.
2224 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2225 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2226 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2229 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2230 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2231 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2233 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2234 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2236 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2238 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2240 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2242 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2243 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2244 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2246 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2247 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2248 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2249 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2251 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2252 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2254 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2255 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2256 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2257 resolver implementation change.
2259 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2260 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2262 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2264 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2266 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2267 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2269 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2270 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2272 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2273 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2275 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2276 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2277 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2278 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2279 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2281 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2283 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2284 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2285 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2287 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2289 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2290 read-only, out of scope).
2291 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2293 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2294 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2295 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2296 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2298 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2300 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2301 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2302 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2303 real issues in debug logging.
2305 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2306 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2308 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2309 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2310 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2312 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2313 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2314 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2317 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2318 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2320 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2321 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2322 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2323 needs to override this, it can.
2325 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2326 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2327 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2329 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2330 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2331 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2332 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2334 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2340 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2341 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2343 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2345 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2348 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2349 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2351 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2352 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2353 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2355 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2356 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2357 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2358 not safe for signals.
2360 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2361 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2362 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2363 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2366 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2368 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2369 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2370 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2371 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2372 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2374 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2375 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2376 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2377 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2378 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2379 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2381 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2382 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2383 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2384 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2386 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2387 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2388 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2389 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2391 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2392 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2393 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2394 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2395 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2396 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2397 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2398 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2399 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2401 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2402 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2403 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2404 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2406 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2407 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2408 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2409 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2410 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2411 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2412 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2413 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2414 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2415 details in the main documentation.
2417 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2419 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2421 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2422 repository when doing development or release builds.
2424 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2425 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2427 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2428 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2431 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2433 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2434 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2436 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2437 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2439 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2440 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2442 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2443 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2445 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2446 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2448 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2450 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2453 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2454 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2455 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2457 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2459 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2461 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2462 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2468 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2470 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2471 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2473 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2475 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2477 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2480 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2481 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2483 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2484 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2486 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2487 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2489 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2492 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2493 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2495 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2496 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2497 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2498 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2500 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2501 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2507 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2510 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2511 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2512 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2514 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2515 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2517 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2518 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2519 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2521 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2522 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2524 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2525 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2527 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2528 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2530 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2531 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2533 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2534 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2536 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2539 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2540 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2542 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2543 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2545 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2546 SQL string expansion failure details.
2547 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2549 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2550 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2552 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2553 extern declarations in function scope.
2554 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2556 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2557 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2558 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2561 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2562 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2564 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2565 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2567 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2568 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2570 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2571 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2573 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2574 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2577 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2579 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2581 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2582 Patch by Simon Arlott
2584 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2585 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2591 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2592 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2594 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2595 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2597 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2599 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2600 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2601 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2603 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2604 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2605 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2607 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2608 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2609 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2610 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2612 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2613 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2614 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2615 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2617 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2618 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2619 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2622 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2625 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2626 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2627 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2628 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2629 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2635 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2636 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2637 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2639 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2640 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2642 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2644 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2646 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2648 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2650 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2652 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2653 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2654 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2655 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2657 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2658 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2659 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2660 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2661 more caution in buffer sizes.
2663 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2665 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2667 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2669 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2671 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2673 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2675 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2677 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2678 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2679 ignore trailing whitespace.
2681 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2683 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2686 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2687 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2689 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2690 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2691 Notification from John Horne.
2693 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2696 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2697 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2700 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2703 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2704 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2705 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2707 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2708 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2709 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2712 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2713 option (effectively making it always true).
2715 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2716 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2718 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2719 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2721 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2722 run-time user, instead of root.
2724 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2725 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2727 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2728 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2731 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2732 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2733 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2735 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2737 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2743 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2744 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2747 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2748 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2751 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2752 Patch from Alain Williams
2754 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2756 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2757 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2759 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2760 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2762 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2764 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2766 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2767 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2769 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2771 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2773 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2774 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2775 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2777 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2778 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2780 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2781 Patch by Simon Arlott
2783 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2784 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2790 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2792 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2794 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2796 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2798 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2804 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2805 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2807 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2808 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2811 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2812 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2813 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2815 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2816 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2818 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2819 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2820 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2821 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2823 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2824 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2825 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2827 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2829 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2831 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2832 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2834 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2836 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2837 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2838 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2839 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2841 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2842 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2844 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2846 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2848 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2849 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2851 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2852 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2854 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2855 that they are available at delivery time.
2857 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2859 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2860 incoming_port log selectors.
2862 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2863 setting expands to an empty string.
2865 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2866 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2868 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2869 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2871 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2872 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2874 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2875 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2877 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2878 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2880 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2881 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2883 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2885 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2886 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2888 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2889 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2891 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2893 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2894 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2896 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2898 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2900 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2903 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2904 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2906 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2907 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2909 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2910 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2912 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2913 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2915 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2916 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2918 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2919 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2921 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2922 plus update to original patch.
2924 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2926 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2927 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2929 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2931 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2933 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2935 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2937 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2938 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2940 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2941 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2943 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2944 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2946 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2947 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2949 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2951 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2953 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2955 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2961 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2962 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2963 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2965 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2966 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2967 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2968 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2969 build errors in sieve.c.
2971 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2972 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2973 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2975 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2977 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2979 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2981 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2987 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2989 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2990 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2991 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2992 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2993 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2994 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2995 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2996 for iplsearch lookups.
2998 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2999 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3000 previously such lookups could never work.
3002 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3003 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3004 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3006 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3009 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3010 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3011 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3012 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3013 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3014 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3016 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3017 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3019 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3020 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3021 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3022 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3023 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3024 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3026 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3029 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3031 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3032 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3035 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3036 by clients under certain conditions.
3038 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3039 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3041 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3043 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3044 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3046 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3048 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3050 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3052 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3053 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3055 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3057 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3058 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3060 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3062 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3064 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3065 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3066 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3067 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3069 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3070 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3071 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3073 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3074 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3076 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3078 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3080 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3082 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3083 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3084 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3090 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3091 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3094 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3095 issue a MAIL command.
3097 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3099 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3101 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3102 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3103 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3104 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3105 item. This has been fixed.
3107 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3108 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3110 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3111 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3113 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3114 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3115 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3117 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3119 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3120 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3121 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3122 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3123 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3125 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3126 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3127 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3129 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3130 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3131 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3132 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3134 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3136 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3138 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3139 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3140 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3141 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3142 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3144 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3146 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3147 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3148 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3151 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3153 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3155 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3157 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3159 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3161 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3162 no_callout_flush is set.
3164 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3165 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3166 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3169 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3171 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3172 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3173 other ACL rejections are.
3175 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3176 with slight modification.
3178 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3179 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3181 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3182 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3185 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3186 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3188 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3190 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3191 expansion side effects.
3193 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3194 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3195 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3198 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3199 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3200 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3202 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3203 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3204 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3205 were accidentally chopped off.
3207 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3208 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3209 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3210 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3211 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3212 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3213 pipelining has not been advertised.
3215 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3217 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3218 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3219 This has been fixed.
3221 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3222 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3223 reported on Solaris.
3225 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3226 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3227 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3228 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3229 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3230 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3231 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3233 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3236 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3238 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3240 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3241 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3242 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3243 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3244 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3245 criteria to be more general.
3247 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3248 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3249 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3250 host_all_ignored option.
3252 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3253 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3254 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3255 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3256 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3257 is what is supposed to happen).
3259 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3260 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3261 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3262 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3263 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3266 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3267 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3268 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3269 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3270 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3271 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3274 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3276 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3277 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3279 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3280 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3282 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3284 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3286 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3287 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3288 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3289 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3290 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3291 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3292 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3293 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3294 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3295 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3296 least in a lot of common cases.
3298 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3299 advertised in response to EHLO.
3305 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3306 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3308 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3309 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3311 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3312 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3313 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3315 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3316 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3317 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3318 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3319 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3325 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3326 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3329 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3330 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3331 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3333 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3334 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3335 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3336 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3337 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3338 rather than extend the field.
3344 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3345 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3346 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3347 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3350 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3351 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3352 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3354 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3355 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3356 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3358 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3359 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3360 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3363 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3364 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3365 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3366 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3367 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3368 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3369 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3370 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3371 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3372 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3373 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3375 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3378 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3379 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3380 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3381 ignores EPIPE as well.
3383 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3384 (quoted-printable decoding).
3386 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3387 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3389 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3391 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3393 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3395 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3396 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3398 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3401 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3402 miscellaneous code fixes
3404 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3407 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3408 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3409 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3410 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3411 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3412 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3413 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3414 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3416 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3417 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3418 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3419 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3421 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3422 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3423 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3424 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3425 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3426 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3427 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3428 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3429 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3431 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3434 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3435 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3436 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3437 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3438 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3439 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3440 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3441 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3443 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3444 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3447 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3448 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3449 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3450 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3451 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3452 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3453 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3454 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3455 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3456 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3457 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3458 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3459 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3461 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3462 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3463 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3464 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3465 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3466 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3467 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3469 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3470 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3471 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3472 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3473 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3474 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3475 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3476 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3477 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3478 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3480 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3481 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3482 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3483 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3484 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3486 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3487 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3488 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3489 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3490 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3491 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3492 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3494 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3495 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3496 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3497 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3498 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3499 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3502 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3503 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3504 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3507 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3508 if any retry times were supplied.
3510 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3511 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3512 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3514 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3516 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3518 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3519 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3520 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3521 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3522 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3523 before) are ignored.
3525 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3526 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3528 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3529 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3530 committing the later change.]
3532 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3533 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3534 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3535 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3536 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3537 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3538 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3539 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3540 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3542 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3543 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3544 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3545 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3546 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3547 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3548 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3549 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3550 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3552 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3553 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3554 hammering the server.
3556 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3557 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3559 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3561 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3562 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3563 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3565 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3566 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3567 one case where this was not true.
3569 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3570 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3571 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3572 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3575 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3576 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3577 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3578 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3579 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3580 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3581 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3582 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3583 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3586 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3587 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3588 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3589 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3591 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3592 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3594 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3595 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3596 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3598 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3600 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3602 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3604 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3605 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3606 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3607 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3609 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3610 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3612 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3613 be meaningful with "accept".
3615 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3616 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3618 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3619 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3620 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3622 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3623 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3624 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3625 there is data to show.
3626 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3628 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3629 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3630 as well as the number of messages.
3632 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3633 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3634 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3636 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3637 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3638 have a flag are now skipped.
3640 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3641 Added the -emptyok flag.
3643 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3644 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3646 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3647 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3648 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3650 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3653 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3654 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3656 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3658 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3659 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3661 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3663 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3664 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3665 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3666 contravention of the specifications.
3668 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3669 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3670 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3672 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3673 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3674 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3676 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3678 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3679 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3680 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3681 some point in the past.
3683 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3684 transport during callout processing was broken.
3686 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3687 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3689 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3690 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3692 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3693 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3695 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3701 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3702 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3704 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3705 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3706 there is data to show.
3707 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3709 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3710 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3712 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3713 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3715 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3716 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3718 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3719 submissions from trusted users.
3721 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3722 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3724 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3725 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3726 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3727 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3728 there is now a framework to start from.
3730 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3731 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3732 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3734 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3736 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3738 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3740 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3741 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3742 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3744 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3747 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3748 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3749 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3751 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3752 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3753 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3756 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3757 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3758 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3759 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3760 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3762 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3763 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3765 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3767 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3768 operations in malware.c.
3770 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3773 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3774 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3775 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3778 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3779 statements to "add_header".
3781 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3782 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3784 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3785 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3788 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3792 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3793 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3794 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3797 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3798 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3800 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3801 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3803 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3804 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3805 any possible encoding problems.
3807 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3808 but not after initializing Perl.
3810 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3811 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3812 apparently, which is not desirable.
3814 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3817 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3820 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3822 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3823 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3824 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3825 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3827 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3828 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3829 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3831 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3832 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3833 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3836 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3837 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3838 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3839 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3840 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3846 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3847 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3849 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3852 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3853 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3854 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3855 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3856 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3857 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3858 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3859 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3862 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3864 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3865 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3866 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3868 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3869 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3870 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3873 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3874 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3876 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3877 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3878 option (which defaults to 0600).
3880 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3882 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3883 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3884 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3885 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3886 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3887 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3888 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3890 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3896 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3897 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3898 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3899 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3900 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3901 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3904 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3905 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3907 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3909 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3910 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3911 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3912 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3913 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3916 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3917 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3919 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3920 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3921 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3922 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3923 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3925 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3926 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3927 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3928 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3930 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3931 be the same on different OS.
3933 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3936 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3937 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3939 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3942 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3943 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3944 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3945 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3946 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3947 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3950 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3951 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3952 when Exim was called.
3954 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3955 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3957 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3958 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3959 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3960 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3962 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3963 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3964 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3965 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3968 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3969 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3970 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3972 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3973 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3974 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3976 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3979 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3980 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3981 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3982 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3983 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3984 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3985 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3986 values from the SRV records were lost.
3988 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3989 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3990 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3992 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3993 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3994 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3996 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3997 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3998 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3999 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4000 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4001 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4002 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4003 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4004 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4005 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4007 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4008 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4009 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4011 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4012 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4014 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4015 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4016 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4017 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4020 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4021 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4022 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4024 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4025 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4026 PH/23 above applies.
4028 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4029 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4030 (for which there is an explicit test).
4032 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4034 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4035 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4036 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4037 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4038 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4040 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4041 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4042 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4043 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4045 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4046 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4047 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4049 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4051 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4053 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4054 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4055 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4057 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4058 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4059 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4060 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4061 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4063 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4064 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4065 the message gets confusing).
4067 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4068 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4069 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4070 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4072 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4073 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4074 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4075 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4078 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4079 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4080 the different processes.
4082 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4084 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4086 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4087 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4089 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4090 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4092 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4093 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4094 messages matching specified criteria.
4096 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4098 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4099 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4101 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4102 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4103 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4104 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4105 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4106 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4107 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4108 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4109 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4110 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4112 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4113 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4114 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4116 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4118 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4119 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4120 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4121 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4122 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4123 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4124 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4127 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4128 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4130 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4132 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4134 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4136 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4137 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4138 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4139 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4140 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4141 size of the count of files.
4143 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4145 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4148 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4149 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4150 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4151 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4153 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4154 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4155 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4157 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4158 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4159 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4160 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4161 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4163 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4164 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4166 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4167 will now be deprecated.
4169 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4171 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4172 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4173 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4175 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4176 with very large, slow to parse queues
4178 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4180 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4182 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4183 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4184 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4187 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4188 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4189 Sieve code now uses this.
4191 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4192 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4194 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4195 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4197 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4199 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4200 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4201 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4202 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4203 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4205 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4206 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4207 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4208 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4210 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4212 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4214 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4215 is preferred over IPv4.
4217 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4218 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4219 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4220 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4221 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4222 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4223 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4225 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4226 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4227 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4229 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4231 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4232 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4233 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4234 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4235 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4236 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4237 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4238 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4239 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4240 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4241 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4243 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4244 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4245 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4251 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4253 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4254 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4256 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4257 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4258 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4260 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4262 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4265 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4268 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4269 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4270 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4273 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4274 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4276 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4277 inside the third argument.
4279 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4280 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4283 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4284 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4286 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4287 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4289 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4291 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4292 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4295 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4297 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4298 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4299 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4300 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4301 identical. For example:
4303 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4305 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4306 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4307 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4309 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4310 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4311 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4312 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4314 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4315 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4316 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4319 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4321 o fixes some comments
4322 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4323 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4324 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4325 and documents the missing references header update
4329 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4330 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4333 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4334 Electronic Mail") by including:
4336 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4338 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4339 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4340 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4341 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4342 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4344 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4346 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4348 The auto-replied keyword:
4350 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4351 message by an automatic process,
4353 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4355 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4356 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4358 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4359 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4362 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4363 to the default Received: header definition.
4365 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4367 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4368 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4369 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4371 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4372 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4373 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4375 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4376 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4377 and treats the condition as false.
4379 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4381 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4382 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4383 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4384 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4385 not changing the active code.
4387 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4388 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4390 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4391 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4393 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4396 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4397 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4398 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4399 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4400 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4401 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4402 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4403 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4404 the text comparison.
4406 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4407 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4408 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4409 The same fix has been applied.
4415 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4416 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4419 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4420 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4422 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4424 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4425 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4426 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4427 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4428 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4430 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4431 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4432 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4433 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4436 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4444 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4445 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4447 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4449 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4451 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4452 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4453 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4455 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4456 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4457 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4459 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4460 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4463 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4464 ${stat: expansion item.
4466 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4467 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4469 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4470 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4473 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4475 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4478 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4479 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4481 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4483 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4484 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4485 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4486 the end of the subprocess.
4488 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4489 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4490 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4491 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4492 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4494 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4496 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4498 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4499 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4501 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4503 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4505 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4506 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4509 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4511 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4512 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4513 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4515 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4516 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4518 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4519 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4521 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4522 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4524 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4525 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4527 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4528 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4529 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4530 contributed by a Radius user.
4532 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4533 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4535 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4536 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4538 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4541 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4542 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4545 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4546 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4547 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4548 header lines when this was not necessary.
4550 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4552 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4553 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4554 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4557 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4560 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4561 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4562 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4563 return code was incorrect.
4565 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4567 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4569 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4571 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4573 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4574 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4575 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4576 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4577 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4580 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4582 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4583 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4584 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4585 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4586 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4587 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4588 which is clearly wrong.
4590 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4592 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4593 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4594 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4597 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4598 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4600 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4602 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4603 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4605 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4606 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4608 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4609 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4611 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4612 recipients, not senders.
4614 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4615 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4617 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4619 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4621 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4622 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4623 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4624 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4626 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4628 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4629 clock is set back in time.
4631 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4632 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4634 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4635 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4637 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4638 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4641 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4642 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4645 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4648 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4650 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4651 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4652 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4654 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4655 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4656 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4657 helo verification defer as a failure.
4659 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4660 actual error message.
4666 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4668 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4669 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4670 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4671 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4673 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4675 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4676 can still be requested.
4678 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4679 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4680 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4681 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4683 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4684 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4685 circumstances, but probably never did.
4687 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4688 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4689 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4692 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4694 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4695 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4697 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4699 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4701 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4702 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4703 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4704 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4705 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4706 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4708 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4709 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4710 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4711 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4712 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4713 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4715 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4716 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4718 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4719 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4721 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4722 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4724 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4726 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4728 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4730 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4732 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4734 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4736 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4738 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4739 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4740 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4742 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4743 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4744 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4745 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4747 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4748 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4749 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4751 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4752 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4753 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4754 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4756 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4757 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4760 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4761 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4762 should work with maildirs and everything.
4764 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4765 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4767 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4770 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4771 function for BDB 4.3.
4773 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4775 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4776 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4779 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4780 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4781 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4782 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4783 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4784 formatting function string_vformat().
4786 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4787 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4788 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4789 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4790 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4791 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4792 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4793 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4795 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4796 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4799 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4800 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4802 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4803 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4804 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4805 test. It is now used for both.
4807 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4808 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4809 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4810 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4811 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4812 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4814 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4815 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4816 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4819 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4820 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4821 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4823 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4824 experimental DomainKeys support:
4826 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4827 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4828 the control was given.
4830 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4832 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4834 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4836 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4837 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4838 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4841 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4842 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4843 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4844 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4845 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4846 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4849 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4850 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4851 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4852 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4853 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4854 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4856 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4857 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4858 do -d+all out of habit.
4860 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4861 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4864 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4865 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4866 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4867 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4868 record types that Exim uses.
4870 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4871 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4872 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4873 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4874 non-existent file that was broken.
4876 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4877 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4879 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4880 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4881 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4883 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4885 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4886 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4887 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4888 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4889 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4892 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4893 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4894 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4895 at a slight CPU cost.
4897 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4898 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4900 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4903 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4905 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4906 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4912 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4913 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4915 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4917 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4919 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4920 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4922 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4923 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4924 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4925 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4926 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4927 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4930 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4931 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4932 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4933 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4936 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4937 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4938 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4939 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4940 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4941 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4942 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4945 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4946 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4948 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4949 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4950 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4951 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4952 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4953 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4955 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4956 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4957 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4958 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4960 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4963 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4964 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4966 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4967 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4968 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4969 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4972 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4974 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4975 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4977 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4978 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4979 to what was transported.)
4981 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4983 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4984 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4985 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4986 spamd_address settings.
4988 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4989 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4990 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4991 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4992 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4994 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4996 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4997 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4998 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4999 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5000 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5002 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5003 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5005 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5006 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5007 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5008 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5009 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5010 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5011 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5014 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5015 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5016 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5017 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5018 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5019 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5020 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5023 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5025 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5026 driver and ACL definitions.
5028 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5029 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5031 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5032 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5033 understands it better than I do:
5035 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5036 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5038 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5039 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5040 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5041 => three warnings about OTP not working
5042 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5044 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5045 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5046 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5047 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5049 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5050 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5052 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5053 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5054 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5056 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5057 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5060 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5061 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5064 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5065 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5066 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5068 warn !verify = sender
5069 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5071 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5072 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5074 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5076 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5077 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5079 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5080 nomenclature these days.)
5082 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5083 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5085 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5086 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5087 . First host does not offer TLS;
5088 . First host accepts first address;
5089 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5090 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5091 . Second host accepts second address.
5092 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5093 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5096 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5097 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5098 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5099 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5100 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5102 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5103 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5105 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5106 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5108 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5109 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5110 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5112 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5113 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5116 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5118 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5119 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5120 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5121 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5122 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5123 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5124 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5126 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5127 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5128 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5129 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5130 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5132 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5133 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5136 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5137 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5138 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5139 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5140 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5141 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5143 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5145 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5146 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5147 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5148 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5149 printable escape sequences.
5151 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5152 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5155 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5156 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5159 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5160 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5161 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5162 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5163 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5165 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5166 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5167 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5169 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5171 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5172 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5175 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5176 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5177 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5178 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5179 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5180 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5181 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5182 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5183 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5186 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5187 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5188 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5189 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5193 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5194 ----------------------------------------
5196 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5197 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5198 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5199 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5200 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5201 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5204 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5205 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5206 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5207 historical information.
5213 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5215 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5216 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5218 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5219 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5222 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5223 filter fails to execute.
5225 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5226 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5227 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5228 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5229 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5231 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5233 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5234 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5235 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5236 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5238 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5239 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5240 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5241 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5242 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5244 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5246 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5248 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5249 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5250 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5251 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5253 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5254 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5255 sender verification.
5257 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5258 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5260 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5262 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5265 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5266 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5268 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5269 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5271 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5272 information about exactly what failed.
5274 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5276 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5277 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5278 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5280 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5281 It is now set to "smtps".
5283 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5284 ignore_target_hosts.
5286 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5287 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5288 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5289 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5292 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5293 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5294 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5296 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5297 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5298 wake it up if nothing else does.
5300 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5301 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5302 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5305 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5306 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5308 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5310 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5311 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5312 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5313 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5314 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5315 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5316 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5317 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5319 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5320 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5321 than one IP address.
5323 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5324 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5325 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5326 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5328 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5329 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5330 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5331 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5332 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5335 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5336 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5337 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5338 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5340 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5341 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5344 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5345 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5346 $sender_host_address.
5348 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5349 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5350 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5351 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5352 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5355 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5357 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5358 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5360 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5361 just the host names, not the priorities.
5363 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5364 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5365 controlled by a keyword.
5367 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5368 multiple records are returned.
5370 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5371 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5374 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5376 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5377 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5379 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5380 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5381 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5383 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5385 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5387 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5389 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5390 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5391 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5392 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5393 because the tests only now provoked it.
5395 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5396 (this can affect the format of dates).
5398 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5399 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5400 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5401 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5403 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5405 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5406 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5407 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5408 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5410 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5411 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5412 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5414 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5417 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5418 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5419 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5420 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5421 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5422 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5425 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5426 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5427 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5430 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5431 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5432 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5434 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5435 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5436 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5437 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5438 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5439 so I produce this patch..."
5441 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5442 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5445 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5446 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5447 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5448 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5451 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5453 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5454 long debug lines gets shown.
5456 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5457 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5459 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5461 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5462 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5463 of $primary_hostname.
5465 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5466 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5467 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5468 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5469 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5470 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5471 by change 4.50/55 above.
5473 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5474 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5475 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5476 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5477 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5478 running as the user.
5481 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5482 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5483 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5486 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5487 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5489 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5490 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5491 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5492 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5493 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5495 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5496 This has been fixed.
5498 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5499 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5500 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5501 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5504 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5506 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5507 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5508 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5509 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5511 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5512 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5514 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5515 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5516 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5518 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5519 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5520 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5523 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5524 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5525 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5527 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5528 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5529 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5530 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5532 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5533 during host lookups.
5535 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5536 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5538 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5540 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5541 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5542 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5543 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5544 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5547 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5548 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5550 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5551 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5552 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5554 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5556 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5557 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5558 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5559 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5560 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5561 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5564 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5565 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5566 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5567 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5568 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5570 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5573 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5575 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5576 "vacation" handling.
5578 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5579 OS variants using glibc.
5581 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5584 ----------------------------------------------------
5585 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5586 ----------------------------------------------------
5592 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5593 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5596 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5597 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5600 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5601 filter fails to execute.
5603 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5604 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5605 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5606 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5607 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5609 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5610 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5611 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5612 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5614 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5615 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5616 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5617 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5618 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5620 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5622 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5623 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5624 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5625 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5627 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5628 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5629 sender verification.
5631 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5632 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5634 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5635 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5637 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5638 ignore_target_hosts.
5640 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5641 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5642 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5643 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5646 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5647 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5648 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5650 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5651 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5652 wake it up if nothing else does.
5654 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5655 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5656 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5659 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5660 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5662 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5664 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5665 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5668 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5669 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5672 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5673 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5674 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5675 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5676 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5679 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5680 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5683 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5684 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5685 $sender_host_address.
5687 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5689 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5690 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5691 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5693 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5696 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5697 (this can affect the format of dates).
5699 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5700 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5701 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5702 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5704 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5705 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5706 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5708 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5709 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5710 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5711 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5713 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5714 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5715 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5717 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5720 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5721 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5722 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5723 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5724 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5725 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5728 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5729 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5730 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5731 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5734 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5735 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5736 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5737 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5738 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5739 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5740 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5742 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5743 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5744 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5745 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5746 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5747 running as the user.
5750 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5751 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5752 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5755 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5756 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5757 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5758 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5759 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5761 37. 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 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5768 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5769 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5770 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5771 because the tests only now provoked it.
5777 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5778 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5779 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5780 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5781 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5782 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5783 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5785 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5786 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5789 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5791 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5793 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5794 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5797 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5798 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5799 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5800 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5801 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5803 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5804 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5806 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5808 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5810 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5813 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5814 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5816 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5817 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5818 affecting debugging statements).
5820 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5822 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5823 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5824 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5825 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5826 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5827 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5828 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5829 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5830 after the received time, and all would be well.
5832 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5833 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5834 condition in an expansion string.
5836 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5838 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5839 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5840 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5841 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5842 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5843 job under whatever limits there are.
5845 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5847 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5850 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5851 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5852 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5853 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5856 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5857 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5858 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5859 binary data in such strings.
5861 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5863 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5864 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5865 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5866 failure, which is pointless.
5868 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5870 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5872 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5873 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5874 Sender: header lines.
5876 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5877 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5878 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5880 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5881 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5882 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5883 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5884 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5887 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5888 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5889 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5890 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5891 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5893 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5894 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5895 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5898 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5899 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5901 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5902 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5904 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5906 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5908 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5910 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5913 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5915 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5917 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5918 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5919 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5920 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5922 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5923 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5929 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5930 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5931 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5933 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5934 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5935 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5936 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5937 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5938 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5940 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5941 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5942 verification failure".
5944 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5945 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5946 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5947 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5949 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5950 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5951 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5952 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5953 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5954 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5955 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5956 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5957 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5958 treated as a timeout.
5960 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5961 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5962 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5963 not set for Exim filters).
5965 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5966 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5967 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5969 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5971 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5972 try to make them clearer.
5974 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5975 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5977 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5979 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5981 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5982 only the Cygwin environment.
5984 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5985 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5986 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5987 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5988 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5990 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5991 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5992 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5993 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5994 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5995 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5996 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5998 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5999 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6001 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6003 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6004 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6005 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6007 To: susanne@some.where
6009 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6010 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6011 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6012 of addresses in From: header lines).
6014 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6015 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6016 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6018 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6019 treated as non-personal.
6021 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6022 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6024 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6026 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6028 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6029 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6030 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6032 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6033 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6035 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6036 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6037 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6038 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6039 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6040 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6042 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6043 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6044 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6045 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6046 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6047 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6048 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6049 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6051 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6053 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6054 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6056 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6057 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6058 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6060 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6061 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6063 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6064 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6065 rather than long int.
6067 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6069 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6075 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6076 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6077 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6078 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6079 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6080 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6086 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6087 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6089 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6090 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6091 socklen_t is defined.
6093 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6096 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6099 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6100 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6101 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6102 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6103 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6105 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6106 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6107 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6108 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6110 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6111 of flapping under certain conditions.
6113 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6114 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6115 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6117 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6119 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6121 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6122 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6123 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6124 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6126 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6127 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6128 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6129 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6130 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6131 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6132 preserved with the message after it was received.
6134 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6135 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6136 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6137 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6138 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6139 test suite worked just fine.
6141 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6142 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6143 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6145 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6146 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6149 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6150 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6151 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6152 does not fully solve it.
6154 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6155 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6156 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6157 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6158 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6160 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6161 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6162 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6164 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6165 string, for example:
6167 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6169 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6170 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6171 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6172 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6173 the routers could not see them.
6175 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6176 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6178 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6179 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6182 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6183 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6184 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6185 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6186 that needed quoting.
6188 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6189 was not being matched caselessly.
6191 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6194 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6195 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6196 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6197 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6198 when use_sender is false.
6200 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6202 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6204 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6206 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6207 the configuration file.
6209 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6210 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6212 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6214 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6215 bytes in the message body.
6217 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6218 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6221 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6223 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6225 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6226 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6227 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6228 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6235 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6236 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6238 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6239 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6240 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6241 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6242 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6244 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6245 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6247 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6248 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6249 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6251 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6252 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6253 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6255 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6258 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6259 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6260 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6261 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6262 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6263 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6264 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6270 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6271 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6272 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6273 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6274 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6275 default (and expected) setting.
6277 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6278 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6279 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6280 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6282 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6283 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6285 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6288 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6289 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6290 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6291 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6292 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6293 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6295 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6296 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6297 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6299 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6300 part (NOT match_host).
6302 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6304 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6305 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6306 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6307 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6308 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6309 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6310 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6311 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6312 the same named file.
6314 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6315 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6318 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6319 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6320 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6321 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6324 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6325 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6326 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6328 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6330 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6332 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6334 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6335 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6337 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6338 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6339 before starting the TLS session.
6341 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6343 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6344 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6346 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6347 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6348 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6349 colon in the middle).
6355 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6356 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6357 multiple configurations are in use.
6359 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6360 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6361 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6362 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6363 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6364 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6366 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6367 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6369 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6370 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6371 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6373 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6374 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6377 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6378 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6380 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6382 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6383 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6385 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6393 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6394 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6395 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6396 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6397 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6399 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6402 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6403 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6404 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6405 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6406 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6407 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6409 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6410 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6411 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6412 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6413 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6414 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6415 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6418 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6419 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6420 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6421 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6422 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6424 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6426 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6427 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6428 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6430 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6432 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6433 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6434 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6437 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6438 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6440 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6441 Three changes have been made:
6443 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6444 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6445 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6446 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6447 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6449 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6452 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6453 the modified behaviour.
6459 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6462 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6463 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6465 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6466 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6467 try to track down a specific problem.
6469 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6470 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6471 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6473 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6476 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6477 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6478 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6479 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6480 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6481 some earlier ones do not.
6483 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6485 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6486 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6487 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6488 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6489 address literals are enabled, of course).
6491 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6493 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6494 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6495 by a command such as
6499 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6501 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6503 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6504 remained set. It is now erased.
6506 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6507 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6509 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6510 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6511 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6512 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6513 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6514 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6515 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6516 appropriate error code.
6518 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6519 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6520 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6521 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6522 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6523 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6525 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6526 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6527 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6529 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6530 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6531 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6532 terminate the header.
6534 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6535 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6536 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6538 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6539 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6540 (4.30/29). In particular:
6542 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6545 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6546 to write a maildirsize file.
6548 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6549 the transport, the new value overrides.
6551 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6554 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6555 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6556 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6559 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6560 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6561 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6564 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6565 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6566 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6568 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6569 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6572 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6573 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6574 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6576 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6578 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6580 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6582 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6583 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6586 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6587 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6588 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6589 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6590 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6591 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6592 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6595 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6596 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6597 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6598 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6599 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6602 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6603 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6604 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6605 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6606 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6607 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6608 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6609 cached value only when the same options are set.
6611 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6613 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6614 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6615 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6616 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6617 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6619 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6620 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6621 it is clearly obsolete.
6623 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6626 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6627 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6628 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6631 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6632 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6633 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6634 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6635 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6637 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6638 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6639 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6640 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6642 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6644 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6646 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6647 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6650 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6651 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6652 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6653 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6654 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6655 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6658 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6659 with the -f command-line option.
6661 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6662 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6663 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6664 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6665 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6666 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6668 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6669 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6672 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6673 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6674 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6675 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6676 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6677 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6678 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6679 buffer is too small.
6681 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6682 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6684 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6685 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6686 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6687 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6688 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6689 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6690 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6691 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6692 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6694 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6695 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6696 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6698 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6699 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6702 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6703 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6704 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6705 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6706 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6708 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6709 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6710 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6711 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6714 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6716 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6718 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6719 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6721 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6722 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6723 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6725 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6726 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6727 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6728 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6729 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6731 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6732 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6733 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6734 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6735 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6736 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6737 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6739 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6740 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6741 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6742 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6743 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6744 the test of how many are available.
6746 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6747 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6748 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6749 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6750 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6751 new message is started.
6753 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6754 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6756 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6757 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6759 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6760 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6761 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6764 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6765 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6766 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6767 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6768 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6769 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6770 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6772 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6773 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6774 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6775 interpreted as octal.
6777 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6780 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6781 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6782 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6783 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6784 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6785 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6787 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6788 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6789 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6790 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6792 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6793 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6794 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6795 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6797 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6798 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6801 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6802 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6804 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6806 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6807 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6808 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6809 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6811 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6812 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6813 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6814 supplied", which is not helpful.
6816 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6817 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6818 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6820 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6821 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6822 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6823 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6824 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6825 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6826 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6827 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6829 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6830 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6831 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6832 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6833 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6835 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6836 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6837 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6838 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6839 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6840 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6842 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6843 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6844 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6846 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6848 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6849 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6850 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6853 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6855 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6856 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6857 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6858 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6859 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6860 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6861 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6862 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6864 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6865 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6866 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6867 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6868 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6870 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6873 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6874 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6875 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6876 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6877 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6878 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6879 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6880 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6881 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6887 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6888 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6889 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6891 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6894 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6895 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6896 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6898 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6899 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6900 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6901 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6902 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6903 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6905 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6906 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6907 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6908 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6909 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6910 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6911 the Exim test suite.
6913 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6914 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6915 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6916 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6918 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6919 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6920 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6921 specify it in this variable.
6923 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6924 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6925 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6926 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6928 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6929 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6930 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6931 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6933 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6934 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6935 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6936 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6937 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6939 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6941 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6944 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6945 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6946 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6947 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6948 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6950 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6951 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6953 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6954 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6955 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6956 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6957 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6959 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6960 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6962 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6963 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6964 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6966 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6967 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6969 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6970 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6972 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6973 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6974 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6976 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6977 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6979 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6980 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6981 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6982 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6984 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6986 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6987 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6988 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6989 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6991 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6993 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6994 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6996 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6998 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6999 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7000 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7001 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7002 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7003 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7005 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7007 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7008 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7011 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7013 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7014 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7016 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7017 550 Sender verify failed
7019 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7020 the final line of the response.
7022 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7023 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7024 all other user lookups.
7026 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7029 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7030 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7031 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7032 result into an int without checking.
7034 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7035 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7036 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7038 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7039 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7040 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7041 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7043 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7046 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7047 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7049 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7050 to the empty sender.
7052 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7053 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7054 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7055 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7056 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7057 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7058 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7061 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7062 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7063 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7064 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7067 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7068 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7070 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7073 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7074 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7076 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7078 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7079 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7082 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7083 as soon as it is encountered.
7085 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7087 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7090 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7091 recognizes a tab character.
7093 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7094 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7095 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7096 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7098 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7100 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7103 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7105 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7107 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7108 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7111 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7112 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7113 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7114 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7115 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7117 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7118 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7120 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7121 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7122 list (.included file names were always shown).
7124 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7125 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7126 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7129 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7130 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7132 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7134 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7136 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7138 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7139 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7140 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7141 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7142 failures to open the logs.
7144 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7145 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7146 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7147 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7148 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7149 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7150 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7156 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7157 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7158 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7161 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7162 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7163 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7165 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7166 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7167 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7169 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7170 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7171 causing some misleading effects.
7173 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7174 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7175 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7177 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7178 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7179 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7180 queue-runner function directly.
7186 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7189 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7190 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7191 was always written to the default place.
7193 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7194 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7195 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7197 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7199 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7201 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7202 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7203 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7205 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7206 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7209 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7210 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7211 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7213 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7214 command line option is disabled.
7216 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7217 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7219 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7221 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7223 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7224 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7226 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7228 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7229 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7230 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7231 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7232 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7233 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7235 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7236 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7239 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7240 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7242 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7243 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7245 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7246 received was valid base64.
7248 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7249 name of the variable that was being set.
7251 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7253 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7254 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7255 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7256 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7257 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7258 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7260 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7262 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7263 nor realm was specified.
7265 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7266 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7267 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7268 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7270 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7271 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7272 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7274 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7275 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7276 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7278 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7279 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7280 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7281 some systems use these upper case variants.
7283 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7284 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7285 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7286 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7288 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7290 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7291 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7293 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7294 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7297 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7299 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7300 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7301 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7302 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7304 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7307 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7308 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7309 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7311 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7312 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7314 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7315 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7316 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7317 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7319 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7320 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7321 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7323 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7325 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7326 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7327 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7328 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7331 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7332 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7333 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7335 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7337 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7338 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7340 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7341 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7343 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7344 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7345 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7346 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7347 when emails are that large.
7354 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7355 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7357 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7358 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7359 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7361 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7362 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7363 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7365 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7366 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7367 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7368 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7369 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7371 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7372 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7373 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7374 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7375 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7378 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7379 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7380 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7381 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7382 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7383 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7384 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7385 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7386 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7387 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7388 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7389 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7390 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7391 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7393 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7394 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7397 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7398 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7399 error should be diagnosed.
7401 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7402 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7403 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7404 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7405 appeared instead of "NULL".
7407 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7408 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7409 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7410 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7411 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7412 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7415 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7416 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7417 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7423 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7424 or receiver verification errors.
7426 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7429 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7430 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7431 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7432 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7434 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7435 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7436 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7437 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7438 shouldn't happen again.
7440 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7441 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7442 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7444 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7445 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7447 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7449 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7450 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7452 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7453 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7456 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7457 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7458 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7460 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7461 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7462 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7463 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7465 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7466 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7467 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7468 to define what should happen).
7470 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7471 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7472 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7474 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7476 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7478 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7479 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7481 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7482 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7483 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7484 structure in all cases.
7486 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7487 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7488 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7489 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7491 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7492 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7495 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7496 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7498 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7499 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7501 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7502 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7503 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7505 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7506 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7507 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7509 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7510 the book and for uniformity.
7512 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7514 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7515 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7516 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7517 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7518 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7519 non-existent command as the problem.
7521 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7522 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7523 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7525 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7527 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7528 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7529 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7531 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7532 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7533 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7534 timestamps using strftime().
7536 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7537 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7539 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7540 transport-time rewrites.
7542 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7543 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7544 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7545 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7547 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7548 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7550 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7551 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7552 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7553 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7556 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7557 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7558 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7559 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7560 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7561 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7562 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7564 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7565 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7566 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7567 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7568 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7570 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7571 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7572 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7573 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7574 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7575 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7576 remaining text gets split now.
7578 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7579 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7580 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7581 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7583 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7584 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7585 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7586 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7589 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7590 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7591 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7592 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7593 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7594 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7595 passed through if needed.
7597 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7598 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7599 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7600 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7601 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7602 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7604 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7605 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7606 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7607 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7608 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7610 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7611 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7612 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7613 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7614 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7616 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7617 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7620 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7621 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7622 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7623 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7624 mayhem of various kinds.
7626 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7627 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7628 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7629 the right test for positive values.
7631 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7632 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7633 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7634 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7635 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7636 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7637 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7638 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7639 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7640 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7643 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7646 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7647 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7650 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7651 the existing equality matching.
7653 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7654 dealing with inode numbers.
7656 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7657 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7658 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7660 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7661 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7662 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7663 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7666 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7667 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7668 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7669 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7670 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7671 relay addresses has also been removed.
7673 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7675 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7676 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7677 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7679 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7680 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7681 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7682 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7683 processing applies to CR:
7685 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7686 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7688 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7689 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7690 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7691 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7693 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7694 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7695 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7697 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7698 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7699 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7700 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7701 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7702 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7705 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7708 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7709 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7710 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7711 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7714 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7716 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7718 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7720 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7721 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7722 not considered personal.
7724 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7726 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7728 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7730 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7731 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7732 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7733 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7734 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7735 header lines, and spool format errors.
7737 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7738 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7739 for more flexibility.
7741 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7742 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7743 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7745 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7748 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7749 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7750 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7751 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7752 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7753 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7754 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7755 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7756 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7758 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7759 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7760 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7761 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7762 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7763 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7764 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7766 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7767 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7768 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7770 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7771 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7772 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7773 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7774 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7775 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7776 instead of killing the process with assert().
7778 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7779 than Unicode encoding.
7781 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7782 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7783 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7784 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7786 77. Added process_log_path.
7788 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7789 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7791 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7792 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7794 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7795 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7796 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7798 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7799 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7800 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7801 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7802 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7805 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7806 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7809 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7810 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7811 they will be used during message reception.
7817 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.