1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
9 it more usable in the data ACL.
11 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
12 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
13 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
14 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
15 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
16 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
19 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
20 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
21 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
23 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
24 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
25 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
26 paniclog entry was made.
28 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
29 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
30 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
31 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
32 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
33 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
35 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
36 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
39 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
40 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
42 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
43 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
44 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
45 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
47 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
48 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
49 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
50 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
52 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
53 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
56 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
57 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
58 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
59 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
61 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
62 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
63 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
64 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
66 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
67 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
68 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
70 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trtying to rewrite a malformed
71 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
72 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
75 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
76 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
77 written if there were rewrite rules.
79 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
82 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
83 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broking this, giving only
84 a one-time run of the queue.
86 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
89 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
90 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
91 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
92 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any vriable
93 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
94 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
96 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
97 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
98 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
99 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
100 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
101 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
102 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
103 to every line of a received message.
105 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
106 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
107 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
108 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
109 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
110 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
111 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
112 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
113 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
114 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
115 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
116 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
121 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
122 SMTP connection" log lines.
124 JH/02 Option default value updates:
125 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
126 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
128 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
130 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
131 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
132 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
134 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
135 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
136 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
139 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
140 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
142 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
143 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
144 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
146 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
147 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
148 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
149 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
150 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
152 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
153 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
156 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
157 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
159 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
160 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
161 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
163 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
164 API changes in libopendmarc.
166 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
167 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
168 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
170 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
171 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
173 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
174 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
175 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
178 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
179 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
182 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
183 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
184 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
185 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
186 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
187 is strictly an incompatible change.
188 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
189 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
191 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
192 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
193 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
194 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
197 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
198 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
199 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
200 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
202 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
203 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
204 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
205 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
206 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
207 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
210 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
211 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
214 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
215 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
216 to not checking that list for these lookups.
218 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
221 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
222 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
223 was done, killing the process.
225 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
226 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
227 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
230 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
231 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
232 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
233 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
235 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
236 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
238 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
241 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
242 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
243 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
244 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
245 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
246 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
247 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
249 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
250 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
251 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
252 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
253 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
254 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
255 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
256 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
257 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
258 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
260 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
261 usable until about year 3700.
262 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
263 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
264 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
265 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
266 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
267 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
268 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
269 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
270 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
271 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
272 wait- hints databases.
274 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
275 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
276 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
279 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
280 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
281 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
283 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
284 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
286 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
287 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
289 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
290 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
292 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
293 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
295 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
297 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
298 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
299 had in fact been accepted.
301 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
302 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
303 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
304 bad coding of authenticators.
306 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
307 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
309 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
310 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
313 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
314 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
317 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
318 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
321 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
322 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
323 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
325 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
328 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
334 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
335 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
336 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
339 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
340 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
342 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
343 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
344 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
345 not be modified by local-scan code.
347 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
348 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
350 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
351 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
354 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
355 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
357 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
358 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
361 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
362 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
363 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
365 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
366 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
367 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
369 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
370 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
371 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
372 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
373 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
374 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
375 Assorted crashes happen.
377 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
378 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
379 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
382 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
383 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
384 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
385 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
387 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
388 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
389 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
392 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
394 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
395 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
398 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
399 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
400 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
402 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
403 result of expansion operators and items.
405 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
406 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
407 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
408 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
410 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
412 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
413 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
414 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
415 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
418 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
419 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
421 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
422 Previously only the domain part was returned.
424 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
425 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
426 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
427 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
429 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
430 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
431 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
432 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
434 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
435 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
436 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
437 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
438 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
441 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
442 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
443 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
445 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
446 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
447 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
448 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
450 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
451 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
452 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
453 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
455 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
456 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
457 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
458 Previously only the server IP was used.
460 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
461 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
462 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
463 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
465 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
466 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
467 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
469 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
470 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
471 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
474 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
475 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
477 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
478 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
484 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
485 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
486 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
488 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
489 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
490 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
491 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
493 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
494 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
495 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
496 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
497 so could be handling tainted values.
499 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
500 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
501 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
503 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
504 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
505 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
508 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
509 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
510 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
511 to align better with RFC 6125.
513 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
514 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
515 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
516 by adding a release action in that path.
518 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
519 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
520 dynamically-created buffers.
522 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
523 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
524 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
525 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
527 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
528 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
529 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
530 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
532 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
533 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
534 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
536 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
537 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
538 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
539 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
541 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
542 excluded, not matching the documentation.
544 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
545 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
547 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
548 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
549 this was a coding error.
551 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
552 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
553 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
554 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
555 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
556 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
557 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
559 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
560 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
561 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
562 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
564 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
565 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
566 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
567 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
568 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
570 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
571 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
574 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
575 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
576 domain-parking registrar.
578 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
579 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
580 after removing the newline.
582 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
583 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
584 option set, which was previously used.
586 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
589 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
590 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
591 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
592 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
594 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
595 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
596 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
597 exim.dev.20160529.3).
599 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
600 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
601 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
603 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
604 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
605 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
608 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
609 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
610 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
612 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
613 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
614 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
615 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
618 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
619 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
620 there, handle PRX and TFO.
622 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
623 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
624 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
625 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
626 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
628 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
629 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
630 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
631 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
634 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
635 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
637 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
640 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
641 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
642 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
643 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
644 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
646 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
648 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
649 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
650 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
651 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
652 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
653 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
655 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
656 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
658 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
659 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
660 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
662 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
663 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
666 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
667 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
668 of a new variable: $auth4.
670 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
671 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
672 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
673 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
674 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
676 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
677 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
678 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
679 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
681 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
682 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
683 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
685 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
686 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
687 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
688 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
691 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
692 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
693 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
696 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
697 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
698 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
699 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
701 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
702 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
704 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
705 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
706 looked as if if might be one.
708 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
709 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
710 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
711 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
712 messages can show the proxy information.
714 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
715 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
716 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
717 "queue_time_exclusive".
719 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
720 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
721 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
723 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
724 making it unusable in complex expressions.
726 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
727 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
730 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
732 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
734 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
736 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
737 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
738 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
739 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
741 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
742 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
744 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
745 better. Reported by Qualys.
747 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
748 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
751 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
753 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
756 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
758 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
759 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
760 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
761 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
763 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
764 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
766 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
767 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
768 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
769 mode until after various protocol state checks.
770 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
772 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
774 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
775 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
777 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
780 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
781 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
782 executed child processes (if any).
784 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
787 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
788 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
789 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
790 been reported on other platforms.
792 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
794 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
795 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
796 Not supported on Solaris 10.
798 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
799 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
800 since fakereject was originally introduced.
802 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
803 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
805 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
806 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
807 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
810 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
811 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
812 which only permit IP addresses.
818 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
819 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
820 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
822 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
824 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
825 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
828 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
829 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
830 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
832 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
834 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
836 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
837 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
838 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
840 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
841 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
842 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
844 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
845 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
847 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
848 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
851 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
852 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
853 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
854 should both provide the file and set the option.
855 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
857 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
858 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
860 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
861 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
862 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
863 Authentication-Results: header.
865 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
866 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
867 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
868 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
870 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
871 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
872 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
873 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
874 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
875 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
876 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
878 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
879 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
880 copies while it is still usable.
882 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
883 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
884 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
886 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
887 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
889 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
890 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
891 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
892 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
894 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
895 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
896 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
899 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
900 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
901 - the pipe transport command
902 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
903 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
905 - paths used by single-key lookups
906 Previously this was permitted.
908 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
909 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
910 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
911 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
913 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
914 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
915 support larger malloc requests.
917 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
918 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
919 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
920 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
922 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
923 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
924 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
925 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
928 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
929 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
930 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
931 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
932 data being length-specified.
934 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
935 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
936 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
937 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
939 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
940 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
941 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
942 not being properly tracked.
944 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
945 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
946 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
947 minute could be seen.
949 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
950 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
951 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
953 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
954 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
956 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
957 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
960 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
962 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
963 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
965 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
966 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
967 filesystem as sufficient validation.
969 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
970 argument is supplied.
972 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
973 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
974 access under Exim's current working directory.
976 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
977 Previously no event was raised.
979 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
980 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
981 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
984 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
985 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
986 the size of the signature hash.
988 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
989 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
991 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
992 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
993 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
994 dropped between messages.
996 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
997 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
998 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
999 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1001 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1002 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1003 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1004 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1005 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1006 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1007 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1008 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1009 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1011 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1012 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1013 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1015 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1016 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1023 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1024 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1026 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1027 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1028 its own TCP segment.
1030 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1033 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1035 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1037 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1038 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1040 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1041 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1042 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1043 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1044 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1045 suitably configured).
1047 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1048 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1050 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1051 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1054 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1055 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1057 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1058 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1059 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1060 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1063 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1064 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1065 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1067 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1070 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1071 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1073 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1074 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1075 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1076 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1079 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1080 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1081 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1082 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1083 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1085 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1086 shared (NFS) environment.
1088 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1089 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1092 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1093 on some platforms for bit 31.
1095 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1096 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1097 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1098 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1099 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1100 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1101 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1102 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1104 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1106 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1107 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1109 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1110 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1113 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1114 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1117 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1118 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1119 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1122 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1123 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1124 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1126 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1127 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1128 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1129 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1130 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1132 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1135 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1136 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1137 be requested on all coneections.
1139 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1140 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1142 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1144 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1145 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1146 one for these; the option was ignored.
1148 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1149 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1150 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1151 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1153 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1154 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1155 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1158 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1159 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1160 error ignored was made.
1162 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1164 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1165 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1166 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1168 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1169 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1170 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1172 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1173 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1176 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1177 them in our smtp response.
1179 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1180 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1181 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1182 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1183 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1185 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1186 link count into consideration.
1188 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1189 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1191 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1192 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1193 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1196 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1198 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1200 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1202 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1203 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1204 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1205 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1207 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1209 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1210 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1213 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1214 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1215 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1217 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1218 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1219 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1221 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1222 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1223 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1224 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1225 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1226 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1227 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1228 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1230 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1231 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1232 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1234 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1235 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1236 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1238 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1239 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1246 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1247 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1249 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1250 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1252 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1253 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1254 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1256 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1257 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1258 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1260 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1261 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1262 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1263 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1264 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1267 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1268 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1270 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1271 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1272 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1273 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1274 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1275 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1276 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1278 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1279 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1281 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1284 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1285 Previously this would segfault.
1287 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1290 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1291 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1292 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1293 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1294 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1295 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1297 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1299 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1300 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1301 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1302 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1304 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1306 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1307 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1308 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1309 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1311 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1313 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1315 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1316 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1317 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1319 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1320 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1321 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1323 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1325 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1326 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1327 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1328 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1330 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1331 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1332 promised '?' replacement.
1334 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1336 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1337 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1338 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1339 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1340 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1342 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1343 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1344 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1346 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1347 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1348 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1350 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1351 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1352 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1354 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1355 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1356 hope that is portable enough.
1358 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1359 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1360 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1361 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1363 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1364 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1365 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1367 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1368 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1369 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1370 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1372 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1373 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1375 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1376 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1377 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1378 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1380 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1381 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1382 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1384 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1385 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1386 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1387 the previous G, M, k.
1389 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1390 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1393 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1394 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1395 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1396 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1398 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1399 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1401 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1402 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1403 off past the nul-terimation.
1405 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1406 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1407 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1408 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1409 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1411 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1413 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1414 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1415 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1418 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1419 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1421 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1422 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1423 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1425 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1426 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1427 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1429 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1430 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1436 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1437 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1438 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1439 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1440 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1441 be defined in redis_servers.
1443 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1444 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1446 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1447 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1448 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1449 extant use locations.
1451 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1452 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1454 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1455 Previously only the last row was returned.
1457 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1458 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1459 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1460 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1463 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1464 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1465 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1466 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1467 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1468 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1469 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1470 Main pool for expansions.
1471 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1472 active in the testsuite.
1473 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1475 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1476 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1477 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1478 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1481 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1482 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1485 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1486 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1487 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1489 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1490 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1491 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1493 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1494 rows affected is given instead).
1496 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1497 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1499 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1500 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1501 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1502 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1503 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1505 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1506 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1507 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1509 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1510 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1511 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1512 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1515 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1516 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1517 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1520 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1522 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1523 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1525 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1526 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1527 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1529 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1530 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1531 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1534 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1535 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1537 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1538 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1539 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1541 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1542 for the build is renamed.
1544 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1545 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1546 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1548 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1549 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1550 result replacing the original.
1552 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1553 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1554 and the resources needed to be freed.
1556 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1558 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1561 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1562 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1563 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1564 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1566 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1567 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1569 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1570 newer versions of the scanner.
1572 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1573 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1574 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1575 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1576 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1577 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1578 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1580 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1581 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1582 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1583 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1584 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1585 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1586 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1587 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1588 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1589 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1591 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1592 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1594 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1596 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1597 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1599 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1600 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1602 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1603 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1604 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1606 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1607 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1608 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1609 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1611 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1612 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1615 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1616 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1618 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1619 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1620 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1621 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1622 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1624 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1625 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1628 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1629 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1631 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1634 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1635 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1636 "bare" representation.
1638 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1639 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1640 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1641 corrupted the output.
1647 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1648 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1649 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1650 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1652 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1653 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1655 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1656 This permits better logging.
1658 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1659 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1660 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1661 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1662 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1663 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1665 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1666 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1669 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1670 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1671 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1673 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1674 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1676 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1677 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1678 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1679 client, there is no benefit for these.
1680 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1681 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1682 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1685 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1686 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1688 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1689 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1690 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1692 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1693 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1695 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1696 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1697 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1698 signature and again for transmission.
1700 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1701 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1702 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1704 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1705 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1706 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1707 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1708 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1709 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1710 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1712 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1713 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1714 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1715 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1717 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1718 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1719 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1720 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1721 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1722 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1725 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1726 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1727 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1728 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1731 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1732 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1733 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1734 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1737 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1738 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1741 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1742 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1743 banner-time rejection.
1745 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1748 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1749 is the name of a transport.
1752 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1754 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1755 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1757 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1758 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1759 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1762 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1763 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1764 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1765 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1767 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1768 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1769 initial verify call returned a defer.
1771 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1772 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1774 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1775 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1777 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1778 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1780 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1781 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1783 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1784 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1787 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1788 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1790 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1791 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1792 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1794 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1795 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1796 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1797 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1799 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1800 and confused the parent.
1802 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1803 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1805 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1808 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1809 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1810 out-of-order delivery.
1812 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1813 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1814 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1817 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1818 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1821 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1822 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1823 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1825 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1826 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1827 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1828 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1829 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1830 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1832 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1833 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1834 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1836 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1837 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1838 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1840 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1841 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1842 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1843 though a different problem.
1849 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1850 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1852 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1854 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1855 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1857 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1858 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1860 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1861 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1862 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1863 before acknowledging the chunk.
1865 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1866 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1867 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1869 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1870 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1871 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1874 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1875 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1876 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1878 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1879 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1881 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1882 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1883 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1884 body hash calculated value.
1886 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1887 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1888 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1890 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1892 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1893 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1895 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1896 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1897 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1899 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1900 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1901 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1902 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1903 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1904 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1906 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1907 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1908 past that check, despite the cost.
1910 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1911 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1912 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1914 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1915 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1916 TLS library to consume.
1918 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1920 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1922 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1923 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1924 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1925 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1926 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1927 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1928 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1930 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1932 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1934 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1935 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1936 should be warning-free.
1938 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1940 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1941 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1943 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1944 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1945 general solution here.
1947 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1948 already-broken messages in the queue.
1950 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1952 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1958 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1959 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1961 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1962 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1963 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1965 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1966 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1967 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1968 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1969 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1970 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1971 if one fails this test.
1972 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1973 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1975 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1976 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1978 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1979 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1981 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1982 in rewrites and routers.
1984 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1985 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1987 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1988 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1990 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1992 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1995 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1996 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1997 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1998 connection after a verify cache hit.
1999 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2001 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2002 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2004 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2005 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2006 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2007 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2008 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2010 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2011 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2013 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2014 Previously they were not counted.
2016 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2017 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2018 that needed the lookup.
2020 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2021 distinguished as "(=".
2023 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2024 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2026 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2028 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2029 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2031 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2032 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2034 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2035 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2038 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2039 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2040 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2041 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2043 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2045 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2046 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2047 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2049 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2050 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2051 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2054 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2055 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2056 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2059 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2060 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2061 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2063 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2064 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2067 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2069 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2070 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2072 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2073 are not in the system include path.
2075 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2076 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2077 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2078 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2080 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2081 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2082 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2084 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2086 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2087 an incoming connection.
2089 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2092 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2093 fallback to "prime256v1".
2095 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2096 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2102 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2103 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2104 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2105 client dropping the TLS connection.
2107 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2108 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2110 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2111 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2112 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2113 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2116 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2117 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2118 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2119 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2120 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2121 check on the next write.
2123 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2124 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2125 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2126 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2127 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2129 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2130 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2132 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2133 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2134 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2136 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2137 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2138 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2139 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2141 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2142 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2144 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2145 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2147 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2148 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2149 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2152 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2154 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2156 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2158 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2159 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2161 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2162 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2164 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2166 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2167 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2169 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2171 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2172 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2174 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2176 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2177 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2178 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2179 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2180 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2181 they will retry in-clear.
2182 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2183 at installation time.
2185 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2186 with the $config_file variable.
2188 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2189 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2190 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2191 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2192 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2194 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2195 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2196 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2197 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2198 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2200 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2202 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2203 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2204 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2205 list order is no longer honoured.
2207 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2208 for DKIM processing.
2210 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2211 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2213 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2214 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2215 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2216 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2218 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2219 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2221 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2222 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2224 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2225 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2227 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2229 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2230 cached by the daemon.
2232 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2233 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2235 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2236 keys are given for lookup.
2238 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2239 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2240 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2241 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2243 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2244 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2245 server-side so match that on older versions.
2247 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2248 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2249 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2251 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2252 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2254 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2255 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2256 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2257 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2258 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2259 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2260 initial truncated version.
2262 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2264 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2266 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2267 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2269 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2271 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2273 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2274 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2277 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2278 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2281 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2282 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2284 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2285 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2288 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2289 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2290 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2292 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2293 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2294 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2295 extraction. Accept either.
2301 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2304 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2306 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2309 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2310 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2311 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2312 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2314 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2315 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2316 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2318 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2319 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2320 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2323 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2326 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2327 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2328 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2329 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2330 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2332 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2333 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2334 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2336 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2338 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2339 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2341 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2342 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2344 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2347 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2348 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2350 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2351 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2352 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2354 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2355 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2356 specify a port-range.
2358 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2359 timeout value per server.
2361 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2362 now have the list separator specified.
2364 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2367 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2370 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2372 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2373 rather than the verbs used.
2375 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2376 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2378 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2380 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2381 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2383 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2384 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2386 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2387 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2389 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2391 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2393 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2394 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2395 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2396 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2398 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2400 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2401 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2403 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2404 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2406 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2408 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2410 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2412 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2413 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2415 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2416 added for tls authenticator.
2418 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2424 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2425 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2426 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2427 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2428 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2429 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2430 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2432 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2433 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2434 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2435 function when detected.
2437 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2438 cause callback expansion.
2440 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2441 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2442 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2443 instead of bool when processing it.
2445 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2446 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2448 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2450 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2452 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2454 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2455 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2457 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2458 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2459 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2460 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2461 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2462 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2464 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2465 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2468 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2469 version 3.3.6 or later.
2471 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2472 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2473 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2474 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2475 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2476 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2479 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2480 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2482 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2483 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2484 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2487 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2488 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2489 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2491 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2492 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2494 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2495 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2498 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2500 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2501 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2503 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2504 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2507 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2509 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2512 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2513 output list separator was used.
2518 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2519 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2522 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2523 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2525 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2527 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2528 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2534 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2536 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2537 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2538 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2539 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2540 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2541 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2543 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2544 utilities have not been installed.
2546 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2547 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2549 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2550 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2552 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2553 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2554 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2555 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2557 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2559 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2560 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2562 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2565 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2567 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2568 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2569 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2571 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2572 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2573 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2574 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2575 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2576 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2578 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2580 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2581 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2583 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2586 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2588 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2590 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2591 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2593 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2594 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2596 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2598 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2600 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2601 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2603 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2604 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2605 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2607 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2608 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2609 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2612 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2614 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2615 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2618 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2619 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2622 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2623 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2625 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2626 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2628 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2630 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2631 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2632 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2634 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2635 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2637 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2638 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2641 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2642 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2643 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2645 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2647 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2648 Christian Aistleitner.
2650 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2652 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2653 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2655 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2656 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2658 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2659 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2661 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2662 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2664 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2665 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2667 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2668 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2669 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2671 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2673 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2674 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2677 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2679 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2680 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2687 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2689 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2690 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2692 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2695 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2696 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2699 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2701 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2702 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2703 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2704 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2705 using channel bindings instead).
2707 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2708 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2709 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2710 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2711 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2714 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2716 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2718 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2719 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2721 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2722 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2723 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2725 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2727 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2729 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2730 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2732 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2734 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2736 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2738 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2739 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2741 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2743 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2744 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2747 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2748 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2750 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2751 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2754 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2756 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2758 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2759 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2761 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2764 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2765 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2767 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2768 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2770 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2772 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2774 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2777 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2780 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2782 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2783 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2784 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2785 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2787 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2789 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2790 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2791 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2792 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2795 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2796 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2797 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2799 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2800 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2801 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2802 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2804 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2805 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2806 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2807 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2808 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2809 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2810 delivery, as in LMTP.
2812 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2813 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2815 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2817 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2821 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2822 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2823 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2824 username as equal to the username.
2826 This change corrects that bug.
2828 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2829 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2830 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2832 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2834 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2835 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2836 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2837 NULL dereference and crash.
2839 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2841 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2842 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2843 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2845 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2847 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2848 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2849 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2850 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2851 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2852 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2853 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2854 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2855 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2856 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2857 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2859 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2860 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2862 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2863 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2866 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2867 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2868 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2869 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2870 an empty string is now equivalent.
2872 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2873 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2874 not performing validation itself.
2876 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2877 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2879 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2882 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2884 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2885 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2886 other false fix of the same issue.
2887 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2890 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2891 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2893 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2894 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2895 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2897 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2898 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2899 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2901 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2903 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2905 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2906 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2908 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2911 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2912 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2913 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2914 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2915 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2917 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2918 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2920 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2921 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2924 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2925 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2926 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2927 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2929 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2931 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2932 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2933 from multiple comments on this bug.
2935 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2937 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2938 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2941 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2942 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2944 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2945 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2951 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2953 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2959 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2960 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2961 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2963 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2965 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2968 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2970 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2972 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2974 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2975 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2977 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2978 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2980 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2981 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2983 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2984 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2985 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2987 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2989 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2990 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2992 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2994 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2996 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2997 non-compliant senders.
2998 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3000 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3001 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3002 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3004 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3005 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3006 in spool file corruption.
3008 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3009 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3010 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3013 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3014 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3015 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3017 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3018 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3020 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3022 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3024 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3026 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3027 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3028 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3030 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3031 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3032 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3033 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3035 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3036 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3038 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3039 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3040 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3041 resolver implementation change.
3043 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3044 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3046 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3048 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3050 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3051 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3053 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3054 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3056 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3057 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3059 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3060 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3061 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3062 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3063 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3065 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3067 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3068 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3069 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3071 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3073 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3074 read-only, out of scope).
3075 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3077 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3078 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3079 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3080 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3082 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3084 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3085 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3086 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3087 real issues in debug logging.
3089 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3090 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3092 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3093 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3094 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3096 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3097 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3098 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3101 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3102 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3104 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3105 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3106 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3107 needs to override this, it can.
3109 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3110 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3111 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3113 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3114 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3115 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3116 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3118 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3124 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3125 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3127 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3129 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3132 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3133 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3135 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3136 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3137 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3139 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3140 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3141 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3142 not safe for signals.
3144 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3145 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3146 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3147 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3150 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3152 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3153 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3154 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3155 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3156 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3158 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3159 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3160 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3161 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3162 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3163 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3165 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3166 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3167 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3168 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3170 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3171 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3172 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3173 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3175 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3176 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3177 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3178 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3179 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3180 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3181 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3182 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3183 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3185 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3186 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3187 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3188 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3190 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3191 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3192 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3193 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3194 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3195 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3196 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3197 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3198 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3199 details in the main documentation.
3201 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3203 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3205 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3206 repository when doing development or release builds.
3208 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3209 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3211 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3212 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3215 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3217 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3218 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3220 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3221 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3223 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3224 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3226 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3227 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3229 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3230 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3232 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3234 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3237 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3238 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3239 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3241 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3243 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3245 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3246 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3252 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3254 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3255 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3257 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3259 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3261 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3264 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3265 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3267 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3268 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3270 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3271 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3273 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3276 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3277 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3279 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3280 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3281 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3282 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3284 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3285 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3291 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3294 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3295 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3296 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3298 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3299 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3301 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3302 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3303 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3305 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3306 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3308 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3309 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3311 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3312 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3314 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3315 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3317 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3318 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3320 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3323 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3324 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3326 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3327 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3329 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3330 SQL string expansion failure details.
3331 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3333 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3334 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3336 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3337 extern declarations in function scope.
3338 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3340 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3341 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3342 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3345 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3346 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3348 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3349 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3351 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3352 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3354 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3355 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3357 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3358 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3361 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3363 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3365 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3366 Patch by Simon Arlott
3368 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3369 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3375 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3376 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3378 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3379 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3381 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3383 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3384 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3385 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3387 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3388 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3389 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3391 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3392 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3393 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3394 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3396 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3397 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3398 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3399 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3401 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3402 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3403 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3406 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3409 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3410 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3411 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3412 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3413 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3419 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3420 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3421 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3423 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3424 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3426 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3428 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3430 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3432 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3434 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3436 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3437 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3438 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3439 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3441 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3442 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3443 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3444 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3445 more caution in buffer sizes.
3447 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3449 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3451 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3453 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3455 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3457 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3459 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3461 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3462 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3463 ignore trailing whitespace.
3465 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3467 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3470 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3471 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3473 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3474 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3475 Notification from John Horne.
3477 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3480 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3481 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3484 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3487 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3488 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3489 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3491 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3492 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3493 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3496 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3497 option (effectively making it always true).
3499 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3500 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3502 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3503 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3505 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3506 run-time user, instead of root.
3508 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3509 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3511 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3512 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3515 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3516 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3517 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3519 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3521 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3527 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3528 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3531 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3532 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3535 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3536 Patch from Alain Williams
3538 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3540 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3541 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3543 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3544 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3546 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3548 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3550 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3551 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3553 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3555 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3557 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3558 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3559 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3561 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3562 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3564 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3565 Patch by Simon Arlott
3567 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3568 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3574 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3576 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3578 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3580 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3582 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3588 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3589 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3591 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3592 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3595 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3596 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3597 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3599 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3600 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3602 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3603 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3604 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3605 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3607 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3608 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3609 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3611 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3613 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3615 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3616 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3618 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3620 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3621 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3622 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3623 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3625 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3626 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3628 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3630 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3632 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3633 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3635 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3636 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3638 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3639 that they are available at delivery time.
3641 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3643 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3644 incoming_port log selectors.
3646 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3647 setting expands to an empty string.
3649 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3650 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3652 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3653 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3655 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3656 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3658 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3659 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3661 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3662 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3664 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3665 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3667 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3669 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3670 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3672 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3673 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3675 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3677 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3678 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3680 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3682 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3684 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3687 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3688 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3690 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3691 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3693 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3694 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3696 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3697 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3699 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3700 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3702 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3703 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3705 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3706 plus update to original patch.
3708 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3710 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3711 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3713 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3715 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3717 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3719 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3721 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3722 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3724 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3725 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3727 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3728 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3730 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3731 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3733 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3735 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3737 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3739 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3745 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3746 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3747 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3749 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3750 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3751 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3752 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3753 build errors in sieve.c.
3755 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3756 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3757 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3759 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3761 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3763 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3765 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3771 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3773 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3774 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3775 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3776 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3777 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3778 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3779 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3780 for iplsearch lookups.
3782 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3783 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3784 previously such lookups could never work.
3786 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3787 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3788 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3790 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3793 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3794 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3795 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3796 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3797 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3798 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3800 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3801 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3803 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3804 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3805 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3806 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3807 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3808 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3810 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3813 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3815 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3816 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3819 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3820 by clients under certain conditions.
3822 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3823 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3825 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3827 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3828 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3830 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3832 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3834 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3836 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3837 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3839 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3841 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3842 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3844 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3846 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3848 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3849 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3850 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3851 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3853 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3854 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3855 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3857 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3858 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3860 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3862 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3864 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3866 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3867 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3868 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3874 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3875 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3878 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3879 issue a MAIL command.
3881 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3883 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3885 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3886 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3887 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3888 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3889 item. This has been fixed.
3891 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3892 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3894 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3895 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3897 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3898 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3899 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3901 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3903 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3904 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3905 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3906 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3907 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3909 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3910 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3911 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3913 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3914 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3915 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3916 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3918 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3920 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3922 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3923 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3924 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3925 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3926 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3928 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3930 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3931 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3932 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3935 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3937 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3939 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3941 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3943 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3945 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3946 no_callout_flush is set.
3948 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3949 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3950 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3953 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3955 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3956 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3957 other ACL rejections are.
3959 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3960 with slight modification.
3962 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3963 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3965 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3966 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3969 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3970 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3972 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3974 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3975 expansion side effects.
3977 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3978 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3979 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3982 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3983 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3984 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3986 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3987 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3988 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3989 were accidentally chopped off.
3991 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3992 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3993 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3994 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3995 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3996 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3997 pipelining has not been advertised.
3999 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4001 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4002 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4003 This has been fixed.
4005 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4006 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4007 reported on Solaris.
4009 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4010 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4011 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4012 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4013 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4014 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4015 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4017 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4020 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4022 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4024 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4025 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4026 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4027 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4028 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4029 criteria to be more general.
4031 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4032 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4033 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4034 host_all_ignored option.
4036 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4037 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4038 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4039 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4040 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4041 is what is supposed to happen).
4043 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4044 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4045 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4046 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4047 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4050 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4051 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4052 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4053 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4054 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4055 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4058 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4060 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4061 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4063 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4064 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4066 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4068 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4070 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4071 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4072 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4073 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4074 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4075 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4076 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4077 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4078 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4079 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4080 least in a lot of common cases.
4082 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4083 advertised in response to EHLO.
4089 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4090 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4092 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4093 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4095 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4096 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4097 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4099 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4100 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4101 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4102 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4103 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4109 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4110 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4113 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4114 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4115 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4117 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4118 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4119 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4120 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4121 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4122 rather than extend the field.
4128 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4129 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4130 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4131 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4134 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4135 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4136 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4138 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4139 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4140 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4142 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4143 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4144 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4147 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4148 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4149 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4150 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4151 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4152 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4153 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4154 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4155 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4156 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4157 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4159 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4162 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4163 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4164 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4165 ignores EPIPE as well.
4167 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4168 (quoted-printable decoding).
4170 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4171 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4173 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4175 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4177 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4179 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4180 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4182 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4185 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4186 miscellaneous code fixes
4188 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4191 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4192 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4193 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4194 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4195 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4196 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4197 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4198 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4200 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4201 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4202 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4203 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4205 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4206 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4207 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4208 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4209 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4210 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4211 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4212 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4213 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4215 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4218 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4219 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4220 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4221 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4222 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4223 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4224 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4225 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4227 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4228 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4231 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4232 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4233 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4234 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4235 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4236 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4237 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4238 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4239 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4240 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4241 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4242 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4243 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4245 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4246 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4247 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4248 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4249 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4250 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4251 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4253 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4254 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4255 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4256 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4257 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4258 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4259 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4260 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4261 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4262 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4264 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4265 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4266 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4267 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4268 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4270 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4271 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4272 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4273 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4274 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4275 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4276 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4278 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4279 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4280 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4281 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4282 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4283 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4286 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4287 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4288 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4291 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4292 if any retry times were supplied.
4294 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4295 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4296 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4298 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4300 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4302 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4303 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4304 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4305 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4306 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4307 before) are ignored.
4309 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4310 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4312 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4313 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4314 committing the later change.]
4316 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4317 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4318 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4319 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4320 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4321 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4322 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4323 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4324 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4326 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4327 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4328 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4329 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4330 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4331 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4332 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4333 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4334 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4336 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4337 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4338 hammering the server.
4340 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4341 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4343 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4345 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4346 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4347 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4349 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4350 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4351 one case where this was not true.
4353 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4354 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4355 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4356 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4359 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4360 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4361 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4362 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4363 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4364 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4365 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4366 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4367 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4370 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4371 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4372 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4373 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4375 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4376 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4378 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4379 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4380 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4382 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4384 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4386 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4388 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4389 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4390 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4391 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4393 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4394 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4396 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4397 be meaningful with "accept".
4399 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4400 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4402 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4403 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4404 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4406 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4407 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4408 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4409 there is data to show.
4410 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4412 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4413 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4414 as well as the number of messages.
4416 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4417 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4418 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4420 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4421 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4422 have a flag are now skipped.
4424 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4425 Added the -emptyok flag.
4427 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4428 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4430 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4431 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4432 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4434 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4437 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4438 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4440 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4442 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4443 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4445 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4447 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4448 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4449 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4450 contravention of the specifications.
4452 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4453 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4454 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4456 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4457 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4458 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4460 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4462 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4463 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4464 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4465 some point in the past.
4467 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4468 transport during callout processing was broken.
4470 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4471 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4473 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4474 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4476 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4477 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4479 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4485 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4486 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4488 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4489 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4490 there is data to show.
4491 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4493 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4494 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4496 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4497 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4499 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4500 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4502 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4503 submissions from trusted users.
4505 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4506 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4508 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4509 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4510 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4511 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4512 there is now a framework to start from.
4514 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4515 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4516 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4518 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4520 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4522 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4524 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4525 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4526 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4528 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4531 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4532 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4533 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4535 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4536 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4537 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4540 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4541 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4542 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4543 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4544 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4546 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4547 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4549 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4551 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4552 operations in malware.c.
4554 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4557 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4558 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4559 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4562 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4563 statements to "add_header".
4565 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4566 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4568 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4569 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4572 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4576 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4577 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4578 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4581 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4582 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4584 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4585 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4587 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4588 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4589 any possible encoding problems.
4591 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4592 but not after initializing Perl.
4594 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4595 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4596 apparently, which is not desirable.
4598 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4601 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4604 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4606 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4607 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4608 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4609 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4611 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4612 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4613 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4615 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4616 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4617 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4620 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4621 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4622 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4623 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4624 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4630 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4631 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4633 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4636 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4637 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4638 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4639 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4640 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4641 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4642 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4643 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4646 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4648 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4649 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4650 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4652 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4653 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4654 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4657 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4658 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4660 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4661 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4662 option (which defaults to 0600).
4664 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4666 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4667 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4668 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4669 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4670 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4671 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4672 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4674 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4680 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4681 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4682 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4683 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4684 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4685 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4688 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4689 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4691 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4693 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4694 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4695 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4696 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4697 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4700 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4701 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4703 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4704 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4705 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4706 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4707 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4709 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4710 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4711 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4712 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4714 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4715 be the same on different OS.
4717 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4720 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4721 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4723 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4726 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4727 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4728 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4729 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4730 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4731 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4734 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4735 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4736 when Exim was called.
4738 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4739 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4741 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4742 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4743 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4744 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4746 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4747 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4748 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4749 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4752 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4753 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4754 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4756 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4757 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4758 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4760 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4763 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4764 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4765 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4766 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4767 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4768 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4769 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4770 values from the SRV records were lost.
4772 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4773 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4774 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4776 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4777 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4778 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4780 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4781 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4782 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4783 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4784 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4785 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4786 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4787 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4788 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4789 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4791 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4792 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4793 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4795 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4796 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4798 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4799 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4800 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4801 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4804 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4805 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4806 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4808 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4809 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4810 PH/23 above applies.
4812 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4813 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4814 (for which there is an explicit test).
4816 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4818 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4819 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4820 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4821 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4822 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4824 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4825 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4826 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4827 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4829 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4830 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4831 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4833 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4835 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4837 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4838 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4839 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4841 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4842 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4843 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4844 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4845 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4847 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4848 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4849 the message gets confusing).
4851 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4852 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4853 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4854 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4856 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4857 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4858 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4859 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4862 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4863 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4864 the different processes.
4866 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4868 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4870 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4871 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4873 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4874 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4876 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4877 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4878 messages matching specified criteria.
4880 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4882 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4883 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4885 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4886 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4887 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4888 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4889 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4890 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4891 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4892 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4893 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4894 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4896 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4897 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4898 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4900 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4902 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4903 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4904 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4905 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4906 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4907 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4908 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4911 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4912 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4914 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4916 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4918 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4920 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4921 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4922 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4923 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4924 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4925 size of the count of files.
4927 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4929 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4932 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4933 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4934 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4935 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4937 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4938 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4939 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4941 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4942 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4943 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4944 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4945 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4947 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4948 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4950 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4951 will now be deprecated.
4953 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4955 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4956 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4957 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4959 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4960 with very large, slow to parse queues
4962 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4964 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4966 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4967 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4968 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4971 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4972 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4973 Sieve code now uses this.
4975 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4976 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4978 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4979 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4981 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4983 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4984 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4985 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4986 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4987 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4989 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4990 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4991 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4992 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4994 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4996 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4998 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4999 is preferred over IPv4.
5001 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5002 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5003 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5004 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5005 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5006 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5007 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5009 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5010 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5011 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5013 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5015 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5016 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5017 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5018 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5019 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5020 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5021 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5022 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5023 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5024 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5025 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5027 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5028 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5029 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5035 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5037 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5038 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5040 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5041 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5042 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5044 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5046 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5049 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5052 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5053 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5054 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5057 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5058 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5060 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5061 inside the third argument.
5063 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5064 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5067 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5068 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5070 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5071 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5073 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5075 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5076 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5079 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5081 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5082 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5083 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5084 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5085 identical. For example:
5087 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5089 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5090 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5091 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5093 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5094 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5095 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5096 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5098 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5099 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5100 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5103 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5105 o fixes some comments
5106 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5107 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5108 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5109 and documents the missing references header update
5113 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5114 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5117 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5118 Electronic Mail") by including:
5120 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5122 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5123 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5124 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5125 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5126 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5128 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5130 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5132 The auto-replied keyword:
5134 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5135 message by an automatic process,
5137 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5139 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5140 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5142 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5143 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5146 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5147 to the default Received: header definition.
5149 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5151 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5152 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5153 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5155 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5156 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5157 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5159 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5160 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5161 and treats the condition as false.
5163 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5165 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5166 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5167 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5168 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5169 not changing the active code.
5171 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5172 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5174 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5175 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5177 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5180 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5181 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5182 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5183 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5184 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5185 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5186 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5187 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5188 the text comparison.
5190 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5191 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5192 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5193 The same fix has been applied.
5199 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5200 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5203 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5204 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5206 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5208 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5209 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5210 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5211 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5212 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5214 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5215 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5216 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5217 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5220 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5228 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5229 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5231 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5233 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5235 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5236 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5237 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5239 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5240 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5241 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5243 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5244 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5247 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5248 ${stat: expansion item.
5250 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5251 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5253 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5254 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5257 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5259 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5262 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5263 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5265 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5267 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5268 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5269 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5270 the end of the subprocess.
5272 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5273 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5274 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5275 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5276 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5278 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5280 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5282 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5283 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5285 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5287 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5289 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5290 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5293 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5295 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5296 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5297 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5299 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5300 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5302 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5303 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5305 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5306 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5308 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5309 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5311 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5312 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5313 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5314 contributed by a Radius user.
5316 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5317 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5319 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5320 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5322 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5325 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5326 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5329 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5330 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5331 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5332 header lines when this was not necessary.
5334 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5336 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5337 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5338 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5341 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5344 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5345 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5346 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5347 return code was incorrect.
5349 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5351 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5353 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5355 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5357 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5358 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5359 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5360 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5361 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5364 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5366 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5367 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5368 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5369 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5370 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5371 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5372 which is clearly wrong.
5374 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5376 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5377 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5378 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5381 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5382 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5384 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5386 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5387 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5389 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5390 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5392 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5393 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5395 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5396 recipients, not senders.
5398 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5399 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5401 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5403 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5405 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5406 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5407 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5408 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5410 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5412 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5413 clock is set back in time.
5415 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5416 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5418 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5419 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5421 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5422 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5425 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5426 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5429 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5432 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5434 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5435 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5436 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5438 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5439 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5440 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5441 helo verification defer as a failure.
5443 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5444 actual error message.
5450 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5452 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5453 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5454 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5455 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5457 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5459 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5460 can still be requested.
5462 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5463 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5464 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5465 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5467 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5468 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5469 circumstances, but probably never did.
5471 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5472 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5473 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5476 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5478 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5479 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5481 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5483 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5485 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5486 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5487 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5488 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5489 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5490 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5492 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5493 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5494 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5495 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5496 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5497 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5499 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5500 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5502 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5503 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5505 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5506 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5508 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5510 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5512 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5514 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5516 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5518 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5520 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5522 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5523 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5524 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5526 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5527 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5528 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5529 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5531 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5532 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5533 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5535 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5536 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5537 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5538 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5540 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5541 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5544 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5545 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5546 should work with maildirs and everything.
5548 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5549 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5551 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5554 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5555 function for BDB 4.3.
5557 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5559 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5560 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5563 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5564 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5565 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5566 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5567 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5568 formatting function string_vformat().
5570 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5571 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5572 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5573 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5574 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5575 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5576 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5577 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5579 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5580 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5583 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5584 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5586 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5587 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5588 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5589 test. It is now used for both.
5591 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5592 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5593 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5594 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5595 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5596 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5598 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5599 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5600 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5603 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5604 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5605 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5607 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5608 experimental DomainKeys support:
5610 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5611 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5612 the control was given.
5614 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5616 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5618 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5620 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5621 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5622 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5625 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5626 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5627 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5628 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5629 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5630 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5633 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5634 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5635 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5636 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5637 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5638 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5640 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5641 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5642 do -d+all out of habit.
5644 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5645 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5648 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5649 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5650 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5651 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5652 record types that Exim uses.
5654 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5655 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5656 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5657 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5658 non-existent file that was broken.
5660 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5661 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5663 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5664 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5665 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5667 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5669 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5670 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5671 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5672 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5673 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5676 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5677 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5678 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5679 at a slight CPU cost.
5681 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5682 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5684 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5687 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5689 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5690 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5696 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5697 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5699 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5701 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5703 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5704 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5706 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5707 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5708 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5709 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5710 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5711 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5714 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5715 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5716 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5717 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5720 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5721 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5722 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5723 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5724 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5725 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5726 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5729 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5730 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5732 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5733 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5734 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5735 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5736 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5737 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5739 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5740 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5741 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5742 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5744 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5747 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5748 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5750 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5751 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5752 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5753 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5756 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5758 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5759 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5761 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5762 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5763 to what was transported.)
5765 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5767 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5768 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5769 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5770 spamd_address settings.
5772 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5773 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5774 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5775 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5776 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5778 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5780 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5781 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5782 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5783 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5784 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5786 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5787 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5789 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5790 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5791 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5792 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5793 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5794 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5795 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5798 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5799 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5800 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5801 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5802 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5803 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5804 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5807 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5809 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5810 driver and ACL definitions.
5812 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5813 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5815 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5816 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5817 understands it better than I do:
5819 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5820 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5822 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5823 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5824 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5825 => three warnings about OTP not working
5826 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5828 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5829 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5830 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5831 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5833 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5834 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5836 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5837 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5838 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5840 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5841 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5844 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5845 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5848 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5849 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5850 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5852 warn !verify = sender
5853 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5855 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5856 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5858 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5860 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5861 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5863 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5864 nomenclature these days.)
5866 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5867 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5869 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5870 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5871 . First host does not offer TLS;
5872 . First host accepts first address;
5873 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5874 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5875 . Second host accepts second address.
5876 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5877 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5880 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5881 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5882 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5883 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5884 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5886 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5887 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5889 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5890 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5892 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5893 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5894 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5896 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5897 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5900 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5902 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5903 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5904 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5905 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5906 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5907 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5908 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5910 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5911 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5912 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5913 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5914 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5916 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5917 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5920 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5921 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5922 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5923 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5924 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5925 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5927 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5929 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5930 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5931 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5932 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5933 printable escape sequences.
5935 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5936 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5939 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5940 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5943 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5944 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5945 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5946 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5947 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5949 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5950 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5951 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5953 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5955 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5956 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5959 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5960 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5961 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5962 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5963 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5964 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5965 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5966 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5967 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5970 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5971 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5972 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5973 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5977 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5978 ----------------------------------------
5980 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5981 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5982 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5983 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5984 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5985 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5988 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5989 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5990 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5991 historical information.
5997 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5999 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6000 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6002 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6003 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6006 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6007 filter fails to execute.
6009 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6010 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6011 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6012 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6013 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6015 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6017 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6018 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6019 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6020 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6022 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6023 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6024 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6025 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6026 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6028 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6030 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6032 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6033 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6034 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6035 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6037 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6038 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6039 sender verification.
6041 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6042 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6044 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6046 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6049 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6050 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6052 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6053 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6055 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6056 information about exactly what failed.
6058 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6060 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6061 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6062 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6064 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6065 It is now set to "smtps".
6067 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6068 ignore_target_hosts.
6070 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6071 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6072 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6073 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6076 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6077 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6078 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6080 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6081 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6082 wake it up if nothing else does.
6084 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6085 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6086 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6089 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6090 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6092 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6094 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6095 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6096 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6097 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6098 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6099 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6100 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6101 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6103 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6104 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6105 than one IP address.
6107 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6108 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6109 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6110 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6112 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6113 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6114 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6115 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6116 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6119 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6120 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6121 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6122 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6124 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6125 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6128 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6129 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6130 $sender_host_address.
6132 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6133 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6134 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6135 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6136 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6139 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6141 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6142 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6144 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6145 just the host names, not the priorities.
6147 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6148 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6149 controlled by a keyword.
6151 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6152 multiple records are returned.
6154 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6155 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6158 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6160 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6161 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6163 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6164 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6165 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6167 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6169 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6171 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6173 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6174 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6175 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6176 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6177 because the tests only now provoked it.
6179 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6180 (this can affect the format of dates).
6182 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6183 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6184 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6185 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6187 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6189 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6190 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6191 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6192 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6194 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6195 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6196 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6198 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6201 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6202 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6203 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6204 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6205 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6206 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6209 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6210 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6211 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6214 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6215 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6216 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6218 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6219 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6220 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6221 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6222 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6223 so I produce this patch..."
6225 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6226 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6229 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6230 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6231 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6232 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6235 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6237 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6238 long debug lines gets shown.
6240 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6241 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6243 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6245 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6246 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6247 of $primary_hostname.
6249 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6250 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6251 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6252 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6253 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6254 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6255 by change 4.50/55 above.
6257 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6258 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6259 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6260 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6261 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6262 running as the user.
6265 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6266 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6267 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6270 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6271 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6273 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6274 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6275 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6276 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6277 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6279 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6280 This has been fixed.
6282 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6283 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6284 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6285 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6288 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6290 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6291 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6292 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6293 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6295 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6296 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6298 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6299 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6300 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6302 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6303 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6304 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6307 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6308 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6309 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6311 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6312 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6313 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6314 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6316 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6317 during host lookups.
6319 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6320 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6322 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6324 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6325 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6326 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6327 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6328 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6331 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6332 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6334 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6335 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6336 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6338 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6340 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6341 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6342 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6343 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6344 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6345 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6348 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6349 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6350 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6351 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6352 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6354 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6357 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6359 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6360 "vacation" handling.
6362 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6363 OS variants using glibc.
6365 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6368 ----------------------------------------------------
6369 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6370 ----------------------------------------------------
6376 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6377 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6380 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6381 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6384 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6385 filter fails to execute.
6387 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6388 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6389 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6390 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6391 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6393 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6394 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6395 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6396 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6398 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6399 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6400 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6401 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6402 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6404 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6406 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6407 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6408 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6409 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6411 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6412 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6413 sender verification.
6415 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6416 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6418 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6419 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6421 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6422 ignore_target_hosts.
6424 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6425 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6426 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6427 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6430 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6431 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6432 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6434 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6435 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6436 wake it up if nothing else does.
6438 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6439 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6440 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6443 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6444 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6446 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6448 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6449 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6452 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6453 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6456 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6457 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6458 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6459 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6460 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6463 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6464 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6467 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6468 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6469 $sender_host_address.
6471 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6473 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6474 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6475 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6477 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6480 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6481 (this can affect the format of dates).
6483 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6484 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6485 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6486 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6488 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6489 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6490 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6492 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6493 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6494 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6495 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6497 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6498 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6499 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6501 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6504 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6505 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6506 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6507 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6508 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6509 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6512 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6513 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6514 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6515 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6518 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6519 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6520 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6521 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6522 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6523 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6524 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6526 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6527 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6528 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6529 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6530 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6531 running as the user.
6534 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6535 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6536 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6539 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6540 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6541 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6542 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6543 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6545 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6546 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6547 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6548 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6551 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6552 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6553 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6554 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6555 because the tests only now provoked it.
6561 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6562 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6563 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6564 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6565 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6566 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6567 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6569 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6570 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6573 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6575 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6577 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6578 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6581 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6582 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6583 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6584 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6585 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6587 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6588 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6590 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6592 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6594 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6597 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6598 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6600 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6601 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6602 affecting debugging statements).
6604 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6606 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6607 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6608 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6609 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6610 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6611 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6612 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6613 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6614 after the received time, and all would be well.
6616 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6617 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6618 condition in an expansion string.
6620 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6622 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6623 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6624 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6625 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6626 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6627 job under whatever limits there are.
6629 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6631 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6634 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6635 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6636 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6637 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6640 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6641 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6642 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6643 binary data in such strings.
6645 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6647 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6648 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6649 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6650 failure, which is pointless.
6652 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6654 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6656 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6657 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6658 Sender: header lines.
6660 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6661 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6662 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6664 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6665 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6666 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6667 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6668 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6671 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6672 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6673 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6674 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6675 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6677 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6678 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6679 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6682 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6683 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6685 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6686 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6688 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6690 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6692 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6694 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6697 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6699 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6701 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6702 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6703 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6704 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6706 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6707 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6713 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6714 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6715 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6717 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6718 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6719 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6720 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6721 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6722 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6724 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6725 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6726 verification failure".
6728 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6729 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6730 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6731 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6733 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6734 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6735 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6736 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6737 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6738 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6739 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6740 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6741 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6742 treated as a timeout.
6744 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6745 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6746 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6747 not set for Exim filters).
6749 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6750 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6751 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6753 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6755 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6756 try to make them clearer.
6758 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6759 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6761 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6763 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6765 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6766 only the Cygwin environment.
6768 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6769 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6770 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6771 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6772 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6774 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6775 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6776 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6777 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6778 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6779 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6780 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6782 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6783 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6785 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6787 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6788 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6789 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6791 To: susanne@some.where
6793 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6794 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6795 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6796 of addresses in From: header lines).
6798 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6799 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6800 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6802 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6803 treated as non-personal.
6805 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6806 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6808 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6810 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6812 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6813 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6814 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6816 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6817 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6819 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6820 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6821 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6822 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6823 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6824 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6826 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6827 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6828 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6829 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6830 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6831 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6832 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6833 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6835 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6837 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6838 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6840 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6841 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6842 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6844 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6845 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6847 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6848 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6849 rather than long int.
6851 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6853 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6859 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6860 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6861 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6862 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6863 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6864 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6870 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6871 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6873 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6874 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6875 socklen_t is defined.
6877 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6880 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6883 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6884 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6885 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6886 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6887 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6889 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6890 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6891 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6892 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6894 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6895 of flapping under certain conditions.
6897 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6898 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6899 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6901 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6903 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6905 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6906 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6907 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6908 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6910 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6911 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6912 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6913 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6914 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6915 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6916 preserved with the message after it was received.
6918 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6919 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6920 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6921 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6922 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6923 test suite worked just fine.
6925 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6926 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6927 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6929 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6930 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6933 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6934 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6935 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6936 does not fully solve it.
6938 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6939 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6940 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6941 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6942 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6944 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6945 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6946 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6948 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6949 string, for example:
6951 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6953 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6954 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6955 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6956 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6957 the routers could not see them.
6959 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6960 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6962 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6963 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6966 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6967 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6968 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6969 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6970 that needed quoting.
6972 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6973 was not being matched caselessly.
6975 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6978 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6979 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6980 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6981 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6982 when use_sender is false.
6984 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6986 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6988 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6990 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6991 the configuration file.
6993 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6994 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6996 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6998 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6999 bytes in the message body.
7001 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7002 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7005 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7007 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7009 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7010 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7011 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7012 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7019 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7020 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7022 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7023 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7024 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7025 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7026 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7028 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7029 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7031 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7032 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7033 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7035 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7036 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7037 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7039 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7042 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7043 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7044 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7045 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7046 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7047 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7048 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7054 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7055 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7056 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7057 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7058 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7059 default (and expected) setting.
7061 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7062 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7063 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7064 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7066 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7067 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7069 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7072 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7073 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7074 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7075 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7076 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7077 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7079 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7080 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7081 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7083 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7084 part (NOT match_host).
7086 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7088 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7089 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7090 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7091 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7092 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7093 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7094 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7095 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7096 the same named file.
7098 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7099 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7102 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7103 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7104 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7105 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7108 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7109 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7110 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7112 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7114 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7116 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7118 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7119 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7121 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7122 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7123 before starting the TLS session.
7125 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7127 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7128 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7130 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7131 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7132 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7133 colon in the middle).
7139 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7140 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7141 multiple configurations are in use.
7143 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7144 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7145 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7146 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7147 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7148 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7150 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7151 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7153 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7154 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7155 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7157 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7158 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7161 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7162 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7164 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7166 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7167 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7169 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7177 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7178 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7179 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7180 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7181 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7183 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7186 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7187 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7188 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7189 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7190 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7191 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7193 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7194 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7195 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7196 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7197 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7198 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7199 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7202 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7203 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7204 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7205 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7206 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7208 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7210 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7211 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7212 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7214 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7216 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7217 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7218 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7221 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7222 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7224 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7225 Three changes have been made:
7227 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7228 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7229 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7230 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7231 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7233 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7236 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7237 the modified behaviour.
7243 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7246 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7247 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7249 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7250 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7251 try to track down a specific problem.
7253 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7254 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7255 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7257 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7260 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7261 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7262 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7263 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7264 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7265 some earlier ones do not.
7267 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7269 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7270 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7271 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7272 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7273 address literals are enabled, of course).
7275 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7277 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7278 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7279 by a command such as
7283 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7285 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7287 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7288 remained set. It is now erased.
7290 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7291 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7293 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7294 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7295 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7296 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7297 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7298 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7299 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7300 appropriate error code.
7302 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7303 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7304 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7305 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7306 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7307 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7309 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7310 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7311 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7313 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7314 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7315 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7316 terminate the header.
7318 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7319 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7320 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7322 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7323 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7324 (4.30/29). In particular:
7326 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7329 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7330 to write a maildirsize file.
7332 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7333 the transport, the new value overrides.
7335 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7338 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7339 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7340 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7343 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7344 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7345 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7348 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7349 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7350 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7352 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7353 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7356 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7357 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7358 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7360 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7362 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7364 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7366 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7367 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7370 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7371 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7372 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7373 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7374 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7375 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7376 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7379 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7380 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7381 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7382 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7383 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7386 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7387 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7388 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7389 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7390 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7391 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7392 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7393 cached value only when the same options are set.
7395 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7397 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7398 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7399 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7400 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7401 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7403 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7404 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7405 it is clearly obsolete.
7407 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7410 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7411 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7412 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7415 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7416 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7417 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7418 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7419 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7421 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7422 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7423 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7424 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7426 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7428 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7430 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7431 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7434 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7435 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7436 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7437 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7438 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7439 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7442 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7443 with the -f command-line option.
7445 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7446 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7447 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7448 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7449 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7450 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7452 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7453 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7456 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7457 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7458 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7459 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7460 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7461 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7462 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7463 buffer is too small.
7465 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7466 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7468 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7469 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7470 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7471 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7472 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7473 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7474 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7475 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7476 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7478 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7479 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7480 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7482 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7483 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7486 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7487 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7488 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7489 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7490 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7492 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7493 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7494 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7495 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7498 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7500 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7502 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7503 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7505 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7506 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7507 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7509 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7510 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7511 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7512 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7513 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7515 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7516 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7517 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7518 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7519 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7520 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7521 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7523 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7524 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7525 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7526 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7527 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7528 the test of how many are available.
7530 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7531 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7532 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7533 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7534 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7535 new message is started.
7537 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7538 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7540 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7541 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7543 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7544 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7545 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7548 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7549 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7550 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7551 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7552 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7553 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7554 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7556 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7557 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7558 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7559 interpreted as octal.
7561 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7564 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7565 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7566 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7567 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7568 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7569 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7571 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7572 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7573 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7574 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7576 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7577 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7578 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7579 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7581 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7582 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7585 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7586 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7588 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7590 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7591 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7592 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7593 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7595 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7596 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7597 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7598 supplied", which is not helpful.
7600 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7601 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7602 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7604 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7605 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7606 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7607 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7608 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7609 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7610 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7611 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7613 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7614 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7615 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7616 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7617 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7619 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7620 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7621 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7622 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7623 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7624 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7626 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7627 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7628 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7630 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7632 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7633 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7634 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7637 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7639 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7640 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7641 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7642 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7643 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7644 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7645 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7646 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7648 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7649 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7650 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7651 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7652 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7654 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7657 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7658 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7659 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7660 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7661 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7662 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7663 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7664 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7665 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7671 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7672 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7673 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7675 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7678 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7679 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7680 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7682 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7683 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7684 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7685 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7686 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7687 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7689 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7690 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7691 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7692 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7693 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7694 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7695 the Exim test suite.
7697 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7698 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7699 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7700 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7702 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7703 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7704 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7705 specify it in this variable.
7707 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7708 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7709 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7710 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7712 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7713 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7714 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7715 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7717 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7718 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7719 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7720 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7721 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7723 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7725 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7728 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7729 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7730 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7731 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7732 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7734 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7735 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7737 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7738 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7739 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7740 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7741 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7743 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7744 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7746 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7747 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7748 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7750 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7751 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7753 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7754 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7756 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7757 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7758 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7760 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7761 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7763 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7764 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7765 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7766 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7768 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7770 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7771 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7772 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7773 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7775 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7777 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7778 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7780 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7782 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7783 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7784 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7785 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7786 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7787 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7789 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7791 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7792 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7795 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7797 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7798 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7800 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7801 550 Sender verify failed
7803 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7804 the final line of the response.
7806 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7807 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7808 all other user lookups.
7810 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7813 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7814 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7815 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7816 result into an int without checking.
7818 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7819 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7820 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7822 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7823 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7824 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7825 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7827 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7830 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7831 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7833 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7834 to the empty sender.
7836 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7837 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7838 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7839 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7840 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7841 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7842 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7845 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7846 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7847 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7848 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7851 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7852 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7854 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7857 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7858 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7860 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7862 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7863 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7866 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7867 as soon as it is encountered.
7869 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7871 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7874 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7875 recognizes a tab character.
7877 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7878 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7879 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7880 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7882 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7884 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7887 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7889 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7891 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7892 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7895 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7896 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7897 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7898 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7899 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7901 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7902 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7904 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7905 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7906 list (.included file names were always shown).
7908 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7909 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7910 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7913 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7914 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7916 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7918 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7920 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7922 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7923 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7924 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7925 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7926 failures to open the logs.
7928 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7929 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7930 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7931 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7932 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7933 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7934 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7940 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7941 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7942 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7945 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7946 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7947 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7949 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7950 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7951 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7953 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7954 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7955 causing some misleading effects.
7957 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7958 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7959 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7961 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7962 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7963 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7964 queue-runner function directly.
7970 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7973 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7974 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7975 was always written to the default place.
7977 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7978 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7979 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7981 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7983 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7985 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7986 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7987 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7989 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7990 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7993 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7994 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7995 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7997 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7998 command line option is disabled.
8000 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8001 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8003 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8005 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8007 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8008 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8010 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8012 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8013 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8014 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8015 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8016 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8017 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8019 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8020 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8023 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8024 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8026 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8027 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8029 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8030 received was valid base64.
8032 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8033 name of the variable that was being set.
8035 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8037 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8038 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8039 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8040 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8041 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8042 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8044 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8046 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8047 nor realm was specified.
8049 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8050 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8051 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8052 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8054 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8055 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8056 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8058 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8059 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8060 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8062 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8063 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8064 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8065 some systems use these upper case variants.
8067 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8068 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8069 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8070 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8072 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8074 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8075 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8077 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8078 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8081 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8083 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8084 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8085 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8086 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8088 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8091 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8092 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8093 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8095 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8096 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8098 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8099 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8100 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8101 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8103 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8104 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8105 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8107 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8109 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8110 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8111 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8112 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8115 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8116 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8117 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8119 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8121 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8122 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8124 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8125 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8127 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8128 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8129 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8130 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8131 when emails are that large.
8138 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8139 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8141 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8142 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8143 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8145 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8146 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8147 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8149 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8150 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8151 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8152 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8153 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8155 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8156 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8157 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8158 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8159 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8162 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8163 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8164 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8165 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8166 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8167 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8168 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8169 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8170 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8171 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8172 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8173 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8174 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8175 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8177 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8178 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8181 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8182 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8183 error should be diagnosed.
8185 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8186 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8187 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8188 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8189 appeared instead of "NULL".
8191 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8192 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8193 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8194 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8195 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8196 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8199 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8200 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8201 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8207 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8208 or receiver verification errors.
8210 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8213 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8214 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8215 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8216 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8218 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8219 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8220 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8221 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8222 shouldn't happen again.
8224 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8225 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8226 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8228 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8229 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8231 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8233 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8234 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8236 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8237 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8240 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8241 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8242 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8244 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8245 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8246 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8247 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8249 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8250 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8251 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8252 to define what should happen).
8254 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8255 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8256 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8258 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8260 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8262 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8263 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8265 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8266 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8267 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8268 structure in all cases.
8270 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8271 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8272 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8273 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8275 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8276 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8279 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8280 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8282 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8283 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8285 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8286 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8287 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8289 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8290 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8291 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8293 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8294 the book and for uniformity.
8296 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8298 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8299 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8300 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8301 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8302 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8303 non-existent command as the problem.
8305 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8306 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8307 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8309 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8311 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8312 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8313 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8315 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8316 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8317 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8318 timestamps using strftime().
8320 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8321 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8323 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8324 transport-time rewrites.
8326 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8327 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8328 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8329 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8331 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8332 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8334 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8335 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8336 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8337 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8340 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8341 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8342 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8343 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8344 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8345 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8346 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8348 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8349 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8350 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8351 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8352 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8354 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8355 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8356 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8357 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8358 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8359 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8360 remaining text gets split now.
8362 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8363 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8364 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8365 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8367 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8368 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8369 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8370 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8373 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8374 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8375 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8376 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8377 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8378 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8379 passed through if needed.
8381 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8382 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8383 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8384 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8385 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8386 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8388 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8389 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8390 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8391 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8392 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8394 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8395 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8396 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8397 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8398 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8400 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8401 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8404 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8405 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8406 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8407 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8408 mayhem of various kinds.
8410 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8411 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8412 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8413 the right test for positive values.
8415 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8416 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8417 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8418 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8419 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8420 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8421 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8422 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8423 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8424 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8427 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8430 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8431 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8434 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8435 the existing equality matching.
8437 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8438 dealing with inode numbers.
8440 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8441 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8442 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8444 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8445 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8446 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8447 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8450 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8451 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8452 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8453 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8454 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8455 relay addresses has also been removed.
8457 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8459 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8460 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8461 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8463 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8464 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8465 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8466 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8467 processing applies to CR:
8469 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8470 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8472 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8473 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8474 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8475 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8477 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8478 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8479 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8481 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8482 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8483 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8484 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8485 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8486 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8489 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8492 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8493 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8494 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8495 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8498 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8500 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8502 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8504 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8505 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8506 not considered personal.
8508 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8510 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8512 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8514 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8515 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8516 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8517 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8518 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8519 header lines, and spool format errors.
8521 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8522 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8523 for more flexibility.
8525 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8526 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8527 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8529 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8532 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8533 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8534 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8535 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8536 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8537 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8538 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8539 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8540 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8542 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8543 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8544 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8545 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8546 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8547 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8548 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8550 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8551 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8552 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8554 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8555 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8556 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8557 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8558 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8559 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8560 instead of killing the process with assert().
8562 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8563 than Unicode encoding.
8565 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8566 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8567 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8568 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8570 77. Added process_log_path.
8572 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8573 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8575 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8576 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8578 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8579 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8580 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8582 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8583 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8584 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8585 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8586 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8589 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8590 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8593 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8594 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8595 they will be used during message reception.
8601 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.