1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 Exim version 4.89+fixes
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10 Cherry-Picked from the master development branch
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13 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
15 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
16 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
17 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
18 client, there is no benefit for these.
19 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
20 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
21 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
24 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
25 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
26 erroneously found still-pending ones.
28 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
29 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
30 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
31 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
33 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
34 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
35 initial verify call returned a defer.
37 JH/21 Bug 2151 (partial):
38 Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
39 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
41 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
42 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
43 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
44 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
46 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
47 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
49 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
50 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
51 banner-time rejection.
53 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
54 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
55 out-of-order delivery.
57 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
58 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
59 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
62 JH/34 Bug 2199: fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
63 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
70 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
71 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
73 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
75 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
76 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
78 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
79 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
81 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
82 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
83 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
84 before acknowledging the chunk.
86 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
87 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
88 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
90 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
91 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
92 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
95 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
96 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
97 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
99 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
100 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
102 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
103 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
104 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
105 body hash calculated value.
107 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
108 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
109 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
111 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
113 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
114 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
116 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
117 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
118 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
120 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
121 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
122 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
123 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
124 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
125 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
127 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
128 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
129 past that check, despite the cost.
131 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
132 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
133 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
135 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
136 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
137 TLS library to consume.
139 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
141 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
143 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
144 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
145 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
146 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
147 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
148 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
149 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
151 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
153 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
155 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
156 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
157 should be warning-free.
159 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
161 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
162 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
164 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
165 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
166 general solution here.
168 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
169 already-broken messages in the queue.
171 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
173 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
179 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
180 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
182 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
183 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
184 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
186 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
187 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
188 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
189 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
190 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
191 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
192 if one fails this test.
193 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
194 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
196 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
197 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
199 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
200 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
202 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
203 in rewrites and routers.
205 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
206 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
208 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
209 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
211 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
213 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
216 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
217 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
218 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
219 connection after a verify cache hit.
220 Do not update it with the verify result either.
222 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
223 when routing results in more than one destination address.
225 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
226 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
227 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
228 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
229 when the cutthrough connection is made).
231 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
232 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
234 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
235 Previously they were not counted.
237 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
238 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
239 that needed the lookup.
241 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
242 distinguished as "(=".
244 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
245 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
247 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
249 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
250 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
252 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
253 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
255 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
256 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
259 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
260 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
261 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
262 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
264 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
266 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
267 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
268 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
270 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
271 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
272 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
275 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
276 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
277 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
280 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
281 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
282 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
284 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
285 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
288 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
290 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
291 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
293 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
294 are not in the system include path.
296 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
297 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
298 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
299 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
301 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
302 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
303 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
305 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
307 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
308 an incoming connection.
310 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
313 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
314 fallback to "prime256v1".
316 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
317 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
323 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
324 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
325 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
326 client dropping the TLS connection.
328 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
329 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
331 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
332 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
333 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
334 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
337 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
338 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
339 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
340 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
341 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
342 check on the next write.
344 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
345 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
346 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
347 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
348 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
350 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
351 mime_regex ACL conditions.
353 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
354 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
355 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
357 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
358 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
359 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
360 an authenticate fail is not an error.
362 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
363 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
365 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
366 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
368 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
369 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
370 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
373 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
375 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
377 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
379 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
380 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
382 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
383 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
385 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
387 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
388 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
390 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
392 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
393 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
395 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
397 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
398 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
399 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
400 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
401 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
402 they will retry in-clear.
403 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
404 at installation time.
406 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
407 with the $config_file variable.
409 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
410 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
411 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
412 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
413 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
415 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
416 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
417 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
418 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
419 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
421 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
423 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
424 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
425 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
426 list order is no longer honoured.
428 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
431 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
432 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
434 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
435 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
436 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
437 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
439 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
440 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
442 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
443 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
445 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
446 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
448 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
450 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
451 cached by the daemon.
453 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
454 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
456 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
457 keys are given for lookup.
459 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
460 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
461 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
462 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
464 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
465 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
466 server-side so match that on older versions.
468 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
469 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
470 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
472 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
473 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
475 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
476 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
477 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
478 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
479 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
480 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
481 initial truncated version.
483 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
485 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
487 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
488 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
490 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
492 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
494 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
495 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
498 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
499 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
502 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
503 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
505 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
506 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
509 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
510 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
511 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
513 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
514 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
515 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
516 extraction. Accept either.
522 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
525 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
527 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
530 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
531 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
532 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
533 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
535 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
536 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
537 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
539 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
540 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
541 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
544 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
547 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
548 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
549 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
550 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
551 have a dsn_lasthop option.
553 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
554 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
555 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
557 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
559 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
560 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
562 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
563 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
565 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
568 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
569 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
571 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
572 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
573 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
575 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
576 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
577 specify a port-range.
579 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
580 timeout value per server.
582 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
583 now have the list separator specified.
585 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
588 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
591 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
593 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
594 rather than the verbs used.
596 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
597 from 255 to 1024 chars.
599 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
601 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
602 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
604 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
605 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
607 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
608 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
610 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
612 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
614 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
615 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
616 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
617 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
619 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
621 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
622 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
624 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
625 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
627 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
629 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
631 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
633 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
634 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
636 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
637 added for tls authenticator.
639 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
645 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
646 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
647 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
648 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
649 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
650 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
651 the script parsing/test process like normal.
653 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
654 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
655 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
656 function when detected.
658 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
659 cause callback expansion.
661 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
662 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
663 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
664 instead of bool when processing it.
666 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
667 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
669 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
671 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
673 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
675 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
676 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
678 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
679 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
680 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
681 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
682 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
683 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
685 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
686 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
689 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
690 version 3.3.6 or later.
692 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
693 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
694 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
695 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
696 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
697 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
700 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
701 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
703 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
704 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
705 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
708 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
709 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
710 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
712 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
713 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
715 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
716 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
719 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
721 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
722 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
724 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
725 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
728 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
730 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
733 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
734 output list separator was used.
739 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
740 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
743 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
744 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
746 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
748 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
749 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
755 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
757 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
758 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
759 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
760 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
761 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
762 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
764 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
765 utilities have not been installed.
767 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
768 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
770 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
771 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
773 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
774 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
775 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
776 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
778 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
780 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
781 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
783 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
786 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
788 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
789 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
790 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
792 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
793 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
794 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
795 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
796 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
797 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
799 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
801 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
802 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
804 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
807 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
809 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
811 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
812 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
814 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
815 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
817 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
819 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
821 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
822 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
824 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
825 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
826 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
828 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
829 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
830 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
833 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
835 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
836 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
839 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
840 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
843 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
844 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
846 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
847 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
849 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
851 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
852 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
853 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
855 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
856 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
858 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
859 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
862 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
863 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
864 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
866 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
868 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
869 Christian Aistleitner.
871 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
873 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
874 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
876 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
877 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
879 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
880 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
882 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
883 support and error reporting did not work properly.
885 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
886 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
888 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
889 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
890 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
892 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
894 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
895 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
898 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
900 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
901 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
908 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
910 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
911 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
913 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
916 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
917 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
920 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
922 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
923 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
924 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
925 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
926 using channel bindings instead).
928 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
929 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
930 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
931 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
932 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
935 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
937 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
939 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
940 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
942 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
943 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
944 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
946 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
948 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
950 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
951 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
953 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
955 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
957 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
959 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
960 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
962 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
964 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
965 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
968 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
969 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
971 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
972 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
975 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
977 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
979 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
980 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
982 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
985 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
986 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
988 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
989 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
991 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
993 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
995 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
998 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1001 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1003 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1004 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1005 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1006 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1008 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1010 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1011 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1012 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1013 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1016 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1017 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1018 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1020 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1021 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1022 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1023 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1025 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1026 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1027 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1028 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1029 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1030 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1031 delivery, as in LMTP.
1033 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1034 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1036 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1038 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1042 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1043 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1044 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1045 username as equal to the username.
1047 This change corrects that bug.
1049 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1050 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1051 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1053 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1055 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1056 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1057 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1058 NULL dereference and crash.
1060 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1062 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1063 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1064 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1066 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1068 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1069 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1070 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1071 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1072 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1073 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1074 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1075 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1076 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1077 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1078 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1080 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1081 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1083 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1084 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1087 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1088 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1089 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1090 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1091 an empty string is now equivalent.
1093 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1094 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1095 not performing validation itself.
1097 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1098 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1100 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1103 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1105 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1106 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1107 other false fix of the same issue.
1108 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1111 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1112 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1114 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1115 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1116 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1118 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1119 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1120 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1122 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1124 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1126 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1127 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1129 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1132 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1133 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1134 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1135 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1136 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1138 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1139 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1141 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1142 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1145 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1146 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1147 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1148 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1150 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1152 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1153 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1154 from multiple comments on this bug.
1156 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1158 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1159 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1162 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1163 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1165 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1166 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1172 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1174 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1180 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1181 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1182 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1184 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1186 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1189 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1191 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1193 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1195 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1196 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1198 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1199 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1201 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1202 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1204 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1205 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1206 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1208 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1210 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1211 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1213 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1215 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1217 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1218 non-compliant senders.
1219 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1221 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1222 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1223 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1225 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1226 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1227 in spool file corruption.
1229 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1230 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1231 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1234 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1235 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1236 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1238 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1239 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1241 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1243 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1245 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1247 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1248 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1249 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1251 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1252 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1253 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1254 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1256 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1257 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1259 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1260 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1261 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1262 resolver implementation change.
1264 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1265 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1267 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1269 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1271 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1272 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1274 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1275 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1277 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1278 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1280 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1281 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1282 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1283 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1284 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1286 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1288 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1289 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1290 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1292 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1294 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1295 read-only, out of scope).
1296 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1298 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1299 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1300 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1301 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1303 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1305 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1306 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1307 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1308 real issues in debug logging.
1310 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1311 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1313 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1314 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1315 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1317 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1318 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1319 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1322 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1323 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1325 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1326 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1327 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1328 needs to override this, it can.
1330 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1331 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1332 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1334 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1335 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1336 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1337 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1339 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1345 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1346 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1348 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1350 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1353 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1354 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1356 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1357 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1358 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1360 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1361 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1362 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1363 not safe for signals.
1365 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1366 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1367 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1368 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1371 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1373 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1374 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1375 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1376 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1377 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1379 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1380 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1381 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1382 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1383 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1384 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1386 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1387 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1388 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1389 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1391 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1392 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1393 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1394 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1396 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1397 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1398 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1399 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1400 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1401 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1402 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1403 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1404 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1406 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1407 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1408 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1409 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1411 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1412 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1413 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1414 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1415 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1416 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1417 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1418 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1419 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1420 details in the main documentation.
1422 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1424 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1426 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1427 repository when doing development or release builds.
1429 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1430 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1432 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1433 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1436 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1438 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1439 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1441 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1442 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1444 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1445 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1447 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1448 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1450 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1451 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1453 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1455 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1458 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1459 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1460 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1462 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1464 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1466 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1467 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1473 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1475 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1476 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1478 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1480 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1482 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1485 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1486 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1488 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1489 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1491 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1492 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1494 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1497 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1498 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1500 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1501 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1502 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1503 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1505 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1506 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1512 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1515 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1516 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1517 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1519 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1520 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1522 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1523 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1524 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1526 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1527 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1529 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1530 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1532 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1533 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1535 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1536 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1538 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1539 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1541 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1544 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1545 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1547 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1548 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1550 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1551 SQL string expansion failure details.
1552 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1554 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1555 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1557 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1558 extern declarations in function scope.
1559 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1561 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1562 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1563 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1566 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1567 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1569 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1570 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1572 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1573 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1575 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1576 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1578 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1579 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1582 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1584 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1586 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1587 Patch by Simon Arlott
1589 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1590 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1596 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1597 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1599 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1600 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1602 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1604 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1605 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1606 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1608 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1609 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1610 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1612 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1613 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1614 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1615 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1617 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1618 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1619 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1620 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1622 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1623 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1624 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1627 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1630 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1631 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1632 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1633 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1634 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1640 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1641 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1642 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1644 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1645 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1647 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1649 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1651 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1653 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1655 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1657 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1658 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1659 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1660 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1662 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1663 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1664 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1665 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1666 more caution in buffer sizes.
1668 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1670 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1672 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1674 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1676 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1678 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1680 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1682 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1683 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1684 ignore trailing whitespace.
1686 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1688 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1691 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1692 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1694 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1695 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1696 Notification from John Horne.
1698 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1701 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1702 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1705 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1708 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1709 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1710 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1712 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1713 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1714 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1717 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1718 option (effectively making it always true).
1720 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1721 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1723 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1724 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1726 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1727 run-time user, instead of root.
1729 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1730 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1732 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1733 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1736 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1737 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1738 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1740 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1742 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1748 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1749 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1752 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1753 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1756 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1757 Patch from Alain Williams
1759 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1761 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1762 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1764 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1765 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1767 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1769 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1771 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1772 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1774 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1776 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1778 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1779 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1780 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1782 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1783 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1785 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1786 Patch by Simon Arlott
1788 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1789 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1795 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1797 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1799 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1801 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1803 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1809 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1810 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1812 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1813 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1816 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1817 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1818 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1820 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1821 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1823 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1824 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1825 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1826 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1828 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1829 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1830 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1832 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1834 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1836 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1837 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1839 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1841 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1842 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1843 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1844 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1846 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1847 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1849 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1851 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1853 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1854 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1856 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1857 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1859 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1860 that they are available at delivery time.
1862 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1864 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1865 incoming_port log selectors.
1867 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1868 setting expands to an empty string.
1870 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1871 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1873 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1874 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1876 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1877 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1879 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1880 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1882 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1883 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1885 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1886 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1888 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1890 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1891 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1893 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1894 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1896 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1898 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1899 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1901 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1903 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1905 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1908 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1909 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1911 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1912 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1914 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1915 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1917 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1918 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1920 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1921 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1923 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1924 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1926 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1927 plus update to original patch.
1929 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1931 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1932 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1934 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1936 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1938 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1940 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1942 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1943 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1945 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1946 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1948 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1949 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1951 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1952 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1954 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1956 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1958 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1960 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1966 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1967 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1968 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1970 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1971 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1972 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1973 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1974 build errors in sieve.c.
1976 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1977 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1978 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1980 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1982 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1984 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1986 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1992 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1994 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1995 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1996 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1997 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1998 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1999 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2000 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2001 for iplsearch lookups.
2003 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2004 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2005 previously such lookups could never work.
2007 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2008 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2009 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2011 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2014 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2015 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2016 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2017 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2018 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2019 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2021 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2022 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2024 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2025 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2026 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2027 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2028 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2029 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2031 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2034 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2036 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2037 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2040 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2041 by clients under certain conditions.
2043 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2044 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2046 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2048 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2049 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2051 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2053 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2055 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2057 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2058 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2060 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2062 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2063 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2065 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2067 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2069 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2070 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2071 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2072 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2074 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2075 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2076 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2078 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2079 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2081 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2083 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2085 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2087 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2088 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2089 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2095 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2096 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2099 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2100 issue a MAIL command.
2102 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2104 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2106 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2107 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2108 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2109 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2110 item. This has been fixed.
2112 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2113 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2115 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2116 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2118 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2119 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2120 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2122 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2124 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2125 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2126 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2127 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2128 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2130 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2131 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2132 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2134 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2135 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2136 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2137 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2139 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2141 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2143 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2144 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2145 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2146 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2147 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2149 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2151 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2152 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2153 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2156 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2158 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2160 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2162 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2164 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2166 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2167 no_callout_flush is set.
2169 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2170 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2171 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2174 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2176 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2177 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2178 other ACL rejections are.
2180 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2181 with slight modification.
2183 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2184 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2186 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2187 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2190 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2191 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2193 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2195 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2196 expansion side effects.
2198 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2199 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2200 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2203 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2204 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2205 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2207 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2208 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2209 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2210 were accidentally chopped off.
2212 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2213 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2214 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2215 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2216 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2217 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2218 pipelining has not been advertised.
2220 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2222 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2223 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2224 This has been fixed.
2226 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2227 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2228 reported on Solaris.
2230 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2231 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2232 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2233 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2234 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2235 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2236 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2238 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2241 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2243 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2245 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2246 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2247 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2248 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2249 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2250 criteria to be more general.
2252 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2253 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2254 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2255 host_all_ignored option.
2257 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2258 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2259 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2260 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2261 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2262 is what is supposed to happen).
2264 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2265 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2266 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2267 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2268 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2271 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2272 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2273 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2274 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2275 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2276 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2279 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2281 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2282 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2284 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2285 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2287 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2289 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2291 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2292 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2293 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2294 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2295 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2296 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2297 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2298 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2299 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2300 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2301 least in a lot of common cases.
2303 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2304 advertised in response to EHLO.
2310 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2311 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2313 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2314 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2316 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2317 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2318 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2320 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2321 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2322 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2323 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2324 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2330 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2331 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2334 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2335 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2336 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2338 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2339 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2340 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2341 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2342 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2343 rather than extend the field.
2349 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2350 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2351 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2352 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2355 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2356 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2357 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2359 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2360 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2361 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2363 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2364 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2365 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2368 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2369 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2370 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2371 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2372 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2373 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2374 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2375 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2376 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2377 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2378 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2380 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2383 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2384 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2385 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2386 ignores EPIPE as well.
2388 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2389 (quoted-printable decoding).
2391 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2392 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2394 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2396 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2398 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2400 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2401 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2403 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2406 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2407 miscellaneous code fixes
2409 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2412 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2413 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2414 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2415 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2416 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2417 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2418 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2419 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2421 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2422 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2423 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2424 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2426 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2427 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2428 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2429 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2430 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2431 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2432 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2433 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2434 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2436 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2439 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2440 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2441 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2442 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2443 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2444 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2445 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2446 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2448 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2449 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2452 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2453 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2454 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2455 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2456 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2457 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2458 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2459 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2460 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2461 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2462 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2463 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2464 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2466 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2467 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2468 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2469 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2470 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2471 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2472 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2474 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2475 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2476 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2477 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2478 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2479 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2480 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2481 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2482 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2483 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2485 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2486 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2487 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2488 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2489 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2491 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2492 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2493 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2494 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2495 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2496 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2497 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2499 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2500 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2501 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2502 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2503 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2504 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2507 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2508 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2509 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2512 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2513 if any retry times were supplied.
2515 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2516 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2517 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2519 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2521 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2523 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2524 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2525 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2526 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2527 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2528 before) are ignored.
2530 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2531 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2533 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2534 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2535 committing the later change.]
2537 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2538 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2539 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2540 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2541 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2542 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2543 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2544 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2545 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2547 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2548 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2549 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2550 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2551 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2552 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2553 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2554 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2555 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2557 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2558 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2559 hammering the server.
2561 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2562 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2564 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2566 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2567 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2568 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2570 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2571 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2572 one case where this was not true.
2574 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2575 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2576 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2577 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2580 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2581 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2582 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2583 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2584 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2585 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2586 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2587 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2588 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2591 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2592 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2593 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2594 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2596 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2597 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2599 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2600 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2601 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2603 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2605 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2607 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2609 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2610 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2611 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2612 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2614 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2615 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2617 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2618 be meaningful with "accept".
2620 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2621 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2623 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2624 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2625 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2627 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2628 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2629 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2630 there is data to show.
2631 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2633 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2634 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2635 as well as the number of messages.
2637 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2638 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2639 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2641 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2642 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2643 have a flag are now skipped.
2645 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2646 Added the -emptyok flag.
2648 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2649 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2651 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2652 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2653 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2655 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2658 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2659 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2661 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2663 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2664 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2666 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2668 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2669 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2670 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2671 contravention of the specifications.
2673 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2674 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2675 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2677 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2678 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2679 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2681 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2683 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2684 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2685 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2686 some point in the past.
2688 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2689 transport during callout processing was broken.
2691 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2692 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2694 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2695 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2697 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2698 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2700 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2706 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2707 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2709 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2710 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2711 there is data to show.
2712 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2714 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2715 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2717 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2718 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2720 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2721 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2723 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2724 submissions from trusted users.
2726 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2727 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2729 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2730 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2731 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2732 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2733 there is now a framework to start from.
2735 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2736 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2737 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2739 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2741 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2743 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2745 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2746 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2747 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2749 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2752 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2753 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2754 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2756 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2757 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2758 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2761 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2762 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2763 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2764 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2765 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2767 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2768 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2770 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2772 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2773 operations in malware.c.
2775 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2778 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2779 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2780 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2783 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2784 statements to "add_header".
2786 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2787 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2789 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2790 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2793 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2797 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2798 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2799 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2802 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2803 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2805 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2806 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2808 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2809 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2810 any possible encoding problems.
2812 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2813 but not after initializing Perl.
2815 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2816 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2817 apparently, which is not desirable.
2819 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2822 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2825 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2827 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2828 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2829 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2830 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2832 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2833 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2834 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2836 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2837 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2838 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2841 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2842 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2843 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2844 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2845 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2851 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2852 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2854 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2857 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2858 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2859 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2860 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2861 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2862 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2863 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2864 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2867 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2869 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2870 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2871 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2873 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2874 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2875 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2878 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2879 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2881 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2882 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2883 option (which defaults to 0600).
2885 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2887 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2888 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2889 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2890 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2891 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2892 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2893 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2895 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2901 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2902 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2903 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2904 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2905 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2906 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2909 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2910 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2912 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2914 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2915 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2916 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2917 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2918 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2921 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2922 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2924 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2925 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2926 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2927 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2928 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2930 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2931 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2932 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2933 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2935 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2936 be the same on different OS.
2938 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2941 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2942 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2944 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2947 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2948 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2949 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2950 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2951 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2952 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2955 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2956 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2957 when Exim was called.
2959 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2960 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2962 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2963 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2964 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2965 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2967 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2968 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2969 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2970 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2973 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2974 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2975 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
2977 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2978 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2979 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2981 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2984 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2985 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2986 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2987 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2988 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2989 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2990 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2991 values from the SRV records were lost.
2993 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2994 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2995 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2997 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2998 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2999 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3001 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3002 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3003 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3004 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3005 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3006 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3007 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3008 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3009 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3010 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3012 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3013 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3014 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3016 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3017 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3019 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3020 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3021 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3022 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3025 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3026 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3027 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3029 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3030 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3031 PH/23 above applies.
3033 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3034 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3035 (for which there is an explicit test).
3037 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3039 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3040 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3041 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3042 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3043 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3045 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3046 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3047 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3048 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3050 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3051 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3052 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3054 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3056 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3058 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3059 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3060 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3062 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3063 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3064 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3065 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3066 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3068 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3069 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3070 the message gets confusing).
3072 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3073 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3074 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3075 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3077 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3078 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3079 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3080 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3083 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3084 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3085 the different processes.
3087 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3089 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3091 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3092 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3094 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3095 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3097 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3098 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3099 messages matching specified criteria.
3101 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3103 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3104 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3106 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3107 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3108 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3109 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3110 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3111 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3112 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3113 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3114 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3115 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3117 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3118 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3119 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3121 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3123 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3124 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3125 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3126 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3127 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3128 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3129 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3132 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3133 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3135 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3137 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3139 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3141 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3142 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3143 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3144 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3145 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3146 size of the count of files.
3148 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3150 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3153 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3154 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3155 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3156 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3158 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3159 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3160 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3162 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3163 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3164 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3165 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3166 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3168 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3169 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3171 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3172 will now be deprecated.
3174 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3176 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3177 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3178 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3180 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3181 with very large, slow to parse queues
3183 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3185 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3187 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3188 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3189 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3192 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3193 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3194 Sieve code now uses this.
3196 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3197 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3199 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3200 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3202 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3204 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3205 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3206 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3207 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3208 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3210 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3211 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3212 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3213 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3215 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3217 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3219 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3220 is preferred over IPv4.
3222 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3223 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3224 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3225 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3226 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3227 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3228 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3230 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3231 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3232 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3234 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3236 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3237 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3238 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3239 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3240 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3241 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3242 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3243 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3244 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3245 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3246 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3248 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3249 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3250 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3256 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3258 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3259 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3261 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3262 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3263 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3265 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3267 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3270 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3273 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3274 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3275 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3278 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3279 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3281 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3282 inside the third argument.
3284 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3285 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3288 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3289 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3291 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3292 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3294 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3296 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3297 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3300 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3302 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3303 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3304 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3305 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3306 identical. For example:
3308 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3310 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3311 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3312 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3314 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3315 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3316 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3317 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3319 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3320 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3321 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3324 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3326 o fixes some comments
3327 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3328 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3329 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3330 and documents the missing references header update
3334 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3335 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3338 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3339 Electronic Mail") by including:
3341 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3343 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3344 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3345 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3346 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3347 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3349 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3351 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3353 The auto-replied keyword:
3355 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3356 message by an automatic process,
3358 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3360 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3361 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3363 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3364 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3367 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3368 to the default Received: header definition.
3370 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3372 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3373 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3374 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3376 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3377 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3378 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3380 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3381 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3382 and treats the condition as false.
3384 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3386 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3387 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3388 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3389 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3390 not changing the active code.
3392 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3393 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3395 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3396 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3398 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3401 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3402 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3403 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3404 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3405 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3406 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3407 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3408 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3409 the text comparison.
3411 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3412 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3413 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3414 The same fix has been applied.
3420 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3421 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3424 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3425 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3427 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3429 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3430 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3431 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3432 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3433 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3435 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3436 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3437 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3438 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3441 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3449 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3450 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3452 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3454 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3456 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3457 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3458 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3460 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3461 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3462 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3464 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3465 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3468 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3469 ${stat: expansion item.
3471 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3472 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3474 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3475 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3478 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3480 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3483 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3484 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3486 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3488 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3489 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3490 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3491 the end of the subprocess.
3493 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3494 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3495 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3496 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3497 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3499 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3501 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3503 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3504 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3506 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3508 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3510 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3511 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3514 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3516 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3517 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3518 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3520 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3521 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3523 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3524 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3526 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3527 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3529 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3530 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3532 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3533 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3534 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3535 contributed by a Radius user.
3537 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3538 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3540 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3541 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3543 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3546 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3547 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3550 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3551 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3552 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3553 header lines when this was not necessary.
3555 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3557 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3558 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3559 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3562 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3565 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3566 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3567 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3568 return code was incorrect.
3570 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3572 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3574 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3576 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3578 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3579 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3580 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3581 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3582 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3585 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3587 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3588 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3589 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3590 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3591 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3592 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3593 which is clearly wrong.
3595 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3597 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3598 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3599 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3602 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3603 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3605 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3607 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3608 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3610 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3611 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3613 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3614 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3616 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3617 recipients, not senders.
3619 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3620 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3622 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3624 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3626 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3627 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3628 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3629 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3631 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3633 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3634 clock is set back in time.
3636 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3637 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3639 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3640 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3642 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3643 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3646 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3647 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3650 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3653 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3655 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3656 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3657 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3659 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3660 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3661 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3662 helo verification defer as a failure.
3664 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3665 actual error message.
3671 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3673 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3674 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3675 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3676 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3678 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3680 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3681 can still be requested.
3683 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3684 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3685 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3686 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3688 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3689 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3690 circumstances, but probably never did.
3692 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3693 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3694 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3697 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3699 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3700 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3702 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3704 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3706 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3707 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3708 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3709 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3710 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3711 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3713 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3714 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3715 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3716 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3717 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3718 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3720 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3721 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3723 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3724 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3726 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3727 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3729 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3731 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3733 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3735 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3737 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3739 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3741 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3743 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3744 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3745 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3747 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3748 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3749 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3750 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3752 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3753 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3754 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3756 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3757 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3758 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3759 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3761 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3762 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3765 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3766 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3767 should work with maildirs and everything.
3769 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3770 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3772 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3775 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3776 function for BDB 4.3.
3778 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3780 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3781 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3784 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3785 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3786 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3787 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3788 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3789 formatting function string_vformat().
3791 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3792 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3793 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3794 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3795 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3796 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3797 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3798 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3800 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3801 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3804 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3805 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3807 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3808 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3809 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3810 test. It is now used for both.
3812 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3813 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3814 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3815 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3816 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3817 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3819 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3820 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3821 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3824 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3825 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3826 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3828 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3829 experimental DomainKeys support:
3831 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3832 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3833 the control was given.
3835 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3837 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3839 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3841 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3842 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3843 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3846 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3847 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3848 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3849 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3850 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3851 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3854 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3855 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3856 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3857 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3858 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3859 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3861 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3862 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3863 do -d+all out of habit.
3865 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3866 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3869 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3870 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3871 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3872 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3873 record types that Exim uses.
3875 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3876 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3877 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3878 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3879 non-existent file that was broken.
3881 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3882 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3884 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3885 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3886 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3888 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3890 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3891 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3892 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3893 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3894 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3897 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3898 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3899 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3900 at a slight CPU cost.
3902 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3903 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3905 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3908 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3910 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3911 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3917 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3918 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3920 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3922 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3924 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3925 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3927 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3928 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3929 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3930 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3931 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3932 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3935 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3936 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3937 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3938 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3941 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3942 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3943 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3944 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3945 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3946 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3947 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3950 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3951 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3953 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3954 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3955 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3956 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3957 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3958 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3960 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3961 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3962 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3963 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3965 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3968 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3969 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3971 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3972 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3973 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3974 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3977 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3979 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3980 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3982 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3983 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3984 to what was transported.)
3986 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3988 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3989 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3990 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3991 spamd_address settings.
3993 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3994 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3995 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3996 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3997 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3999 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4001 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4002 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4003 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4004 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4005 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4007 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4008 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4010 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4011 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4012 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4013 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4014 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4015 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4016 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4019 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4020 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4021 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4022 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4023 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4024 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4025 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4028 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4030 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4031 driver and ACL definitions.
4033 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4034 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4036 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4037 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4038 understands it better than I do:
4040 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4041 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4043 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4044 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4045 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4046 => three warnings about OTP not working
4047 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4049 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4050 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4051 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4052 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4054 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4055 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4057 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4058 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4059 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4061 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4062 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4065 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4066 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4069 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4070 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4071 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4073 warn !verify = sender
4074 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4076 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4077 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4079 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4081 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4082 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4084 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4085 nomenclature these days.)
4087 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4088 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4090 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4091 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4092 . First host does not offer TLS;
4093 . First host accepts first address;
4094 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4095 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4096 . Second host accepts second address.
4097 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4098 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4101 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4102 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4103 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4104 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4105 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4107 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4108 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4110 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4111 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4113 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4114 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4115 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4117 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4118 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4121 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4123 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4124 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4125 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4126 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4127 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4128 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4129 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4131 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4132 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4133 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4134 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4135 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4137 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4138 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4141 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4142 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4143 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4144 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4145 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4146 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4148 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4150 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4151 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4152 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4153 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4154 printable escape sequences.
4156 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4157 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4160 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4161 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4164 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4165 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4166 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4167 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4168 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4170 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4171 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4172 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4174 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4176 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4177 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4180 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4181 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4182 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4183 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4184 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4185 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4186 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4187 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4188 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4191 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4192 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4193 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4194 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4198 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4199 ----------------------------------------
4201 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4202 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4203 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4204 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4205 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4206 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4209 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4210 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4211 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4212 historical information.
4218 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4220 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4221 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4223 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4224 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4227 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4228 filter fails to execute.
4230 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4231 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4232 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4233 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4234 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4236 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4238 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4239 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4240 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4241 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4243 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4244 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4245 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4246 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4247 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4249 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4251 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4253 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4254 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4255 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4256 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4258 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4259 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4260 sender verification.
4262 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4263 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4265 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4267 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4270 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4271 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4273 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4274 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4276 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4277 information about exactly what failed.
4279 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4281 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4282 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4283 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4285 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4286 It is now set to "smtps".
4288 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4289 ignore_target_hosts.
4291 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4292 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4293 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4294 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4297 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4298 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4299 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4301 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4302 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4303 wake it up if nothing else does.
4305 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4306 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4307 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4310 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4311 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4313 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4315 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4316 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4317 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4318 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4319 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4320 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4321 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4322 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4324 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4325 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4326 than one IP address.
4328 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4329 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4330 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4331 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4333 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4334 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4335 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4336 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4337 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4340 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4341 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4342 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4343 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4345 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4346 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4349 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4350 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4351 $sender_host_address.
4353 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4354 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4355 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4356 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4357 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4360 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4362 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4363 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4365 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4366 just the host names, not the priorities.
4368 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4369 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4370 controlled by a keyword.
4372 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4373 multiple records are returned.
4375 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4376 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4379 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4381 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4382 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4384 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4385 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4386 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4388 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4390 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4392 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4394 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4395 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4396 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4397 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4398 because the tests only now provoked it.
4400 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4401 (this can affect the format of dates).
4403 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4404 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4405 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4406 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4408 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4410 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4411 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4412 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4413 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4415 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4416 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4417 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4419 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4422 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4423 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4424 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4425 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4426 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4427 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4430 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4431 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4432 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4435 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4436 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4437 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4439 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4440 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4441 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4442 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4443 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4444 so I produce this patch..."
4446 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4447 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4450 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4451 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4452 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4453 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4456 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4458 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4459 long debug lines gets shown.
4461 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4462 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4464 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4466 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4467 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4468 of $primary_hostname.
4470 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4471 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4472 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4473 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4474 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4475 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4476 by change 4.50/55 above.
4478 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4479 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4480 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4481 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4482 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4483 running as the user.
4486 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4487 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4488 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4491 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4492 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4494 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4495 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4496 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4497 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4498 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4500 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4501 This has been fixed.
4503 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4504 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4505 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4506 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4509 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4511 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4512 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4513 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4514 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4516 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4517 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4519 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4520 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4521 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4523 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4524 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4525 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4528 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4529 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4530 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4532 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4533 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4534 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4535 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4537 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4538 during host lookups.
4540 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4541 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4543 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4545 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4546 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4547 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4548 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4549 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4552 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4553 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4555 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4556 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4557 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4559 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4561 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4562 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4563 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4564 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4565 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4566 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4569 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4570 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4571 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4572 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4573 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4575 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4578 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4580 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4581 "vacation" handling.
4583 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4584 OS variants using glibc.
4586 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4589 ----------------------------------------------------
4590 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4591 ----------------------------------------------------
4597 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4598 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4601 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4602 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4605 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4606 filter fails to execute.
4608 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4609 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4610 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4611 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4612 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4614 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4615 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4616 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4617 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4619 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4620 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4621 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4622 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4623 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4625 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4627 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4628 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4629 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4630 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4632 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4633 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4634 sender verification.
4636 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4637 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4639 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4640 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4642 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4643 ignore_target_hosts.
4645 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4646 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4647 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4648 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4651 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4652 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4653 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4655 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4656 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4657 wake it up if nothing else does.
4659 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4660 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4661 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4664 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4665 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4667 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4669 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4670 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4673 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4674 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4677 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4678 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4679 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4680 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4681 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4684 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4685 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4688 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4689 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4690 $sender_host_address.
4692 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4694 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4695 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4696 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4698 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4701 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4702 (this can affect the format of dates).
4704 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4705 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4706 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4707 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4709 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4710 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4711 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4713 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4714 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4715 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4716 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4718 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4719 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4720 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4722 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4725 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4726 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4727 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4728 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4729 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4730 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4733 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4734 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4735 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4736 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4739 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4740 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4741 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4742 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4743 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4744 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4745 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4747 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4748 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4749 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4750 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4751 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4752 running as the user.
4755 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4756 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4757 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4760 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4761 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4762 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4763 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4764 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4766 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4767 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4768 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4769 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4772 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4773 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4774 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4775 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4776 because the tests only now provoked it.
4782 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4783 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4784 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4785 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4786 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4787 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4788 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4790 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4791 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4794 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4796 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4798 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4799 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4802 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4803 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4804 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4805 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4806 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4808 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4809 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4811 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4813 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4815 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4818 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4819 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4821 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4822 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4823 affecting debugging statements).
4825 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4827 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4828 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4829 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4830 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4831 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4832 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4833 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4834 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4835 after the received time, and all would be well.
4837 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4838 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4839 condition in an expansion string.
4841 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4843 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4844 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4845 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4846 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4847 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4848 job under whatever limits there are.
4850 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4852 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4855 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4856 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4857 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4858 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4861 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4862 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4863 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4864 binary data in such strings.
4866 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4868 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4869 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4870 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4871 failure, which is pointless.
4873 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4875 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4877 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4878 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4879 Sender: header lines.
4881 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4882 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4883 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4885 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4886 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4887 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4888 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4889 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4892 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4893 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4894 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4895 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4896 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4898 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4899 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4900 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4903 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4904 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4906 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4907 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4909 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4911 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4913 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4915 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4918 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4920 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4922 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4923 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4924 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4925 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4927 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4928 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4934 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4935 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4936 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4938 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4939 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4940 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4941 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4942 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4943 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4945 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4946 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4947 verification failure".
4949 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4950 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4951 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4952 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4954 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4955 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4956 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4957 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4958 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4959 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4960 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4961 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4962 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4963 treated as a timeout.
4965 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4966 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4967 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4968 not set for Exim filters).
4970 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4971 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4972 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4974 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4976 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4977 try to make them clearer.
4979 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4980 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4982 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4984 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4986 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4987 only the Cygwin environment.
4989 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4990 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4991 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4992 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4993 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4995 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4996 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4997 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4998 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4999 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5000 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5001 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5003 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5004 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5006 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5008 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5009 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5010 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5012 To: susanne@some.where
5014 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5015 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5016 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5017 of addresses in From: header lines).
5019 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5020 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5021 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5023 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5024 treated as non-personal.
5026 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5027 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5029 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5031 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5033 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5034 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5035 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5037 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5038 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5040 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5041 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5042 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5043 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5044 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5045 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5047 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5048 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5049 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5050 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5051 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5052 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5053 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5054 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5056 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5058 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5059 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5061 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5062 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5063 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5065 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5066 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5068 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5069 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5070 rather than long int.
5072 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5074 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5080 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5081 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5082 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5083 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5084 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5085 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5091 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5092 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5094 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5095 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5096 socklen_t is defined.
5098 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5101 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5104 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5105 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5106 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5107 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5108 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5110 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5111 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5112 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5113 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5115 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5116 of flapping under certain conditions.
5118 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5119 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5120 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5122 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5124 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5126 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5127 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5128 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5129 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5131 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5132 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5133 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5134 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5135 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5136 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5137 preserved with the message after it was received.
5139 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5140 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5141 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5142 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5143 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5144 test suite worked just fine.
5146 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5147 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5148 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5150 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5151 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5154 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5155 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5156 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5157 does not fully solve it.
5159 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5160 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5161 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5162 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5163 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5165 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5166 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5167 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5169 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5170 string, for example:
5172 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5174 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5175 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5176 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5177 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5178 the routers could not see them.
5180 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5181 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5183 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5184 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5187 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5188 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5189 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5190 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5191 that needed quoting.
5193 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5194 was not being matched caselessly.
5196 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5199 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5200 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5201 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5202 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5203 when use_sender is false.
5205 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5207 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5209 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5211 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5212 the configuration file.
5214 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5215 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5217 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5219 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5220 bytes in the message body.
5222 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5223 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5226 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5228 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5230 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5231 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5232 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5233 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5240 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5241 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5243 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5244 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5245 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5246 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5247 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5249 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5250 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5252 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5253 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5254 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5256 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5257 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5258 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5260 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5263 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5264 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5265 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5266 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5267 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5268 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5269 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5275 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5276 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5277 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5278 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5279 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5280 default (and expected) setting.
5282 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5283 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5284 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5285 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5287 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5288 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5290 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5293 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5294 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5295 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5296 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5297 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5298 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5300 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5301 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5302 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5304 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5305 part (NOT match_host).
5307 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5309 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5310 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5311 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5312 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5313 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5314 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5315 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5316 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5317 the same named file.
5319 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5320 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5323 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5324 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5325 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5326 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5329 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5330 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5331 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5333 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5335 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5337 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5339 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5340 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5342 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5343 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5344 before starting the TLS session.
5346 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5348 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5349 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5351 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5352 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5353 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5354 colon in the middle).
5360 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5361 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5362 multiple configurations are in use.
5364 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5365 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5366 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5367 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5368 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5369 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5371 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5372 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5374 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5375 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5376 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5378 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5379 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5382 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5383 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5385 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5387 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5388 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5390 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5398 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5399 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5400 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5401 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5402 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5404 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5407 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5408 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5409 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5410 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5411 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5412 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5414 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5415 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5416 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5417 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5418 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5419 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5420 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5423 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5424 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5425 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5426 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5427 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5429 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5431 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5432 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5433 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5435 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5437 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5438 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5439 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5442 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5443 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5445 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5446 Three changes have been made:
5448 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5449 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5450 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5451 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5452 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5454 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5457 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5458 the modified behaviour.
5464 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5467 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5468 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5470 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5471 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5472 try to track down a specific problem.
5474 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5475 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5476 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5478 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5481 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5482 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5483 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5484 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5485 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5486 some earlier ones do not.
5488 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5490 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5491 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5492 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5493 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5494 address literals are enabled, of course).
5496 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5498 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5499 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5500 by a command such as
5504 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5506 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5508 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5509 remained set. It is now erased.
5511 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5512 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5514 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5515 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5516 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5517 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5518 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5519 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5520 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5521 appropriate error code.
5523 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5524 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5525 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5526 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5527 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5528 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5530 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5531 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5532 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5534 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5535 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5536 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5537 terminate the header.
5539 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5540 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5541 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5543 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5544 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5545 (4.30/29). In particular:
5547 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5550 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5551 to write a maildirsize file.
5553 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5554 the transport, the new value overrides.
5556 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5559 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5560 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5561 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5564 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5565 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5566 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5569 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5570 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5571 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5573 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5574 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5577 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5578 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5579 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5581 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5583 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5585 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5587 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5588 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5591 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5592 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5593 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5594 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5595 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5596 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5597 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5600 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5601 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5602 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5603 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5604 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5607 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5608 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5609 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5610 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5611 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5612 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5613 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5614 cached value only when the same options are set.
5616 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5618 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5619 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5620 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5621 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5622 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5624 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5625 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5626 it is clearly obsolete.
5628 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5631 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5632 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5633 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5636 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5637 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5638 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5639 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5640 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5642 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5643 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5644 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5645 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5647 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5649 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5651 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5652 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5655 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5656 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5657 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5658 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5659 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5660 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5663 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5664 with the -f command-line option.
5666 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5667 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5668 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5669 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5670 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5671 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5673 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5674 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5677 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5678 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5679 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5680 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5681 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5682 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5683 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5684 buffer is too small.
5686 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5687 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5689 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5690 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5691 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5692 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5693 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5694 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5695 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5696 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5697 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5699 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5700 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5701 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5703 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5704 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5707 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5708 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5709 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5710 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5711 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5713 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5714 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5715 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5716 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5719 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5721 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5723 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5724 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5726 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5727 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5728 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5730 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5731 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5732 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5733 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5734 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5736 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5737 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5738 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5739 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5740 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5741 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5742 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5744 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5745 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5746 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5747 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5748 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5749 the test of how many are available.
5751 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5752 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5753 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5754 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5755 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5756 new message is started.
5758 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5759 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5761 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5762 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5764 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5765 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5766 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5769 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5770 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5771 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5772 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5773 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5774 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5775 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5777 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5778 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5779 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5780 interpreted as octal.
5782 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5785 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5786 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5787 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5788 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5789 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5790 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5792 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5793 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5794 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5795 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5797 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5798 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5799 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5800 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5802 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5803 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5806 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5807 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5809 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5811 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5812 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5813 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5814 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5816 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5817 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5818 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5819 supplied", which is not helpful.
5821 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5822 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5823 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5825 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5826 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5827 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5828 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5829 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5830 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5831 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5832 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5834 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5835 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5836 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5837 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5838 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5840 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5841 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5842 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5843 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5844 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5845 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5847 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5848 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5849 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5851 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5853 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5854 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5855 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5858 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5860 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5861 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5862 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5863 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5864 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5865 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5866 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5867 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5869 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5870 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5871 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5872 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5873 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5875 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5878 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5879 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5880 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5881 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5882 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5883 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5884 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5885 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5886 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5892 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5893 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5894 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5896 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5899 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5900 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5901 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5903 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5904 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5905 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5906 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5907 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5908 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5910 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5911 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5912 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5913 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5914 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5915 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5916 the Exim test suite.
5918 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5919 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5920 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5921 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5923 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5924 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5925 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5926 specify it in this variable.
5928 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5929 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5930 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5931 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5933 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5934 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5935 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5936 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5938 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5939 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5940 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5941 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5942 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5944 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5946 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5949 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5950 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5951 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5952 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5953 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5955 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5956 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5958 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5959 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5960 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5961 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5962 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5964 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5965 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5967 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5968 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5969 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5971 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5972 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5974 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5975 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5977 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5978 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5979 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5981 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5982 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5984 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5985 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5986 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5987 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5989 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5991 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5992 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5993 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5994 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5996 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5998 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5999 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6001 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6003 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6004 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6005 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6006 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6007 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6008 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6010 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6012 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6013 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6016 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6018 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6019 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6021 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6022 550 Sender verify failed
6024 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6025 the final line of the response.
6027 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6028 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6029 all other user lookups.
6031 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6034 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6035 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6036 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6037 result into an int without checking.
6039 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6040 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6041 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6043 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6044 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6045 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6046 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6048 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6051 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6052 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6054 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6055 to the empty sender.
6057 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6058 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6059 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6060 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6061 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6062 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6063 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6066 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6067 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6068 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6069 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6072 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6073 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6075 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6078 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6079 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6081 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6083 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6084 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6087 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6088 as soon as it is encountered.
6090 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6092 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6095 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6096 recognizes a tab character.
6098 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6099 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6100 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6101 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6103 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6105 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6108 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6110 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6112 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6113 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6116 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6117 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6118 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6119 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6120 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6122 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6123 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6125 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6126 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6127 list (.included file names were always shown).
6129 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6130 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6131 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6134 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6135 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6137 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6139 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6141 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6143 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6144 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6145 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6146 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6147 failures to open the logs.
6149 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6150 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6151 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6152 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6153 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6154 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6155 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6161 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6162 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6163 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6166 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6167 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6168 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6170 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6171 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6172 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6174 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6175 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6176 causing some misleading effects.
6178 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6179 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6180 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6182 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6183 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6184 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6185 queue-runner function directly.
6191 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6194 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6195 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6196 was always written to the default place.
6198 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6199 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6200 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6202 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6204 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6206 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6207 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6208 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6210 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6211 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6214 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6215 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6216 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6218 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6219 command line option is disabled.
6221 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6222 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6224 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6226 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6228 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6229 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6231 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6233 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6234 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6235 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6236 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6237 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6238 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6240 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6241 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6244 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6245 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6247 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6248 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6250 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6251 received was valid base64.
6253 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6254 name of the variable that was being set.
6256 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6258 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6259 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6260 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6261 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6262 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6263 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6265 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6267 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6268 nor realm was specified.
6270 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6271 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6272 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6273 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6275 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6276 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6277 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6279 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6280 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6281 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6283 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6284 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6285 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6286 some systems use these upper case variants.
6288 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6289 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6290 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6291 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6293 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6295 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6296 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6298 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6299 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6302 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6304 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6305 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6306 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6307 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6309 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6312 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6313 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6314 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6316 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6317 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6319 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6320 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6321 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6322 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6324 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6325 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6326 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6328 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6330 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6331 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6332 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6333 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6336 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6337 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6338 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6340 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6342 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6343 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6345 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6346 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6348 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6349 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6350 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6351 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6352 when emails are that large.
6359 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6360 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6362 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6363 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6364 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6366 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6367 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6368 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6370 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6371 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6372 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6373 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6374 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6376 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6377 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6378 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6379 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6380 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6383 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6384 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6385 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6386 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6387 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6388 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6389 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6390 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6391 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6392 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6393 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6394 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6395 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6396 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6398 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6399 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6402 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6403 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6404 error should be diagnosed.
6406 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6407 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6408 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6409 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6410 appeared instead of "NULL".
6412 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6413 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6414 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6415 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6416 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6417 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6420 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6421 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6422 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6428 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6429 or receiver verification errors.
6431 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6434 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6435 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6436 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6437 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6439 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6440 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6441 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6442 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6443 shouldn't happen again.
6445 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6446 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6447 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6449 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6450 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6452 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6454 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6455 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6457 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6458 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6461 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6462 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6463 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6465 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6466 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6467 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6468 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6470 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6471 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6472 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6473 to define what should happen).
6475 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6476 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6477 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6479 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6481 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6483 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6484 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6486 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6487 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6488 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6489 structure in all cases.
6491 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6492 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6493 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6494 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6496 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6497 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6500 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6501 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6503 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6504 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6506 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6507 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6508 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6510 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6511 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6512 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6514 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6515 the book and for uniformity.
6517 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6519 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6520 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6521 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6522 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6523 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6524 non-existent command as the problem.
6526 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6527 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6528 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6530 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6532 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6533 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6534 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6536 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6537 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6538 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6539 timestamps using strftime().
6541 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6542 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6544 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6545 transport-time rewrites.
6547 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6548 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6549 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6550 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6552 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6553 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6555 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6556 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6557 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6558 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6561 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6562 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6563 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6564 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6565 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6566 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6567 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6569 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6570 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6571 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6572 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6573 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6575 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6576 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6577 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6578 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6579 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6580 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6581 remaining text gets split now.
6583 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6584 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6585 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6586 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6588 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6589 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6590 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6591 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6594 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6595 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6596 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6597 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6598 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6599 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6600 passed through if needed.
6602 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6603 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6604 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6605 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6606 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6607 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6609 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6610 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6611 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6612 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6613 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6615 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6616 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6617 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6618 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6619 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6621 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6622 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6625 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6626 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6627 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6628 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6629 mayhem of various kinds.
6631 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6632 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6633 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6634 the right test for positive values.
6636 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6637 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6638 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6639 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6640 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6641 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6642 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6643 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6644 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6645 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6648 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6651 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6652 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6655 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6656 the existing equality matching.
6658 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6659 dealing with inode numbers.
6661 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6662 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6663 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6665 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6666 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6667 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6668 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6671 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6672 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6673 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6674 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6675 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6676 relay addresses has also been removed.
6678 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6680 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6681 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6682 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6684 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6685 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6686 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6687 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6688 processing applies to CR:
6690 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6691 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6693 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6694 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6695 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6696 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6698 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6699 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6700 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6702 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6703 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6704 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6705 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6706 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6707 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6710 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6713 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6714 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6715 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6716 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6719 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6721 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6723 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6725 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6726 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6727 not considered personal.
6729 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6731 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6733 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6735 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6736 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6737 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6738 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6739 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6740 header lines, and spool format errors.
6742 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6743 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6744 for more flexibility.
6746 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6747 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6748 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6750 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6753 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6754 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6755 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6756 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6757 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6758 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6759 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6760 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6761 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6763 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6764 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6765 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6766 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6767 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6768 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6769 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6771 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6772 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6773 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6775 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6776 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6777 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6778 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6779 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6780 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6781 instead of killing the process with assert().
6783 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6784 than Unicode encoding.
6786 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6787 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6788 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6789 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6791 77. Added process_log_path.
6793 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6794 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6796 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6797 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6799 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6800 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6801 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6803 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6804 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6805 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6806 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6807 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6810 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6811 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6814 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6815 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6816 they will be used during message reception.
6822 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.