1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6 Exim version 4.93+fixes
7 -----------------------
8 This is not an official release. It is just a branch, collecting
9 proposed bugfixes. Depending on your environment the fixes may be
10 necessary to build and/or run Exim successfully.
12 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
14 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
15 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
16 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
18 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
19 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
20 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
26 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
27 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
29 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
30 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
33 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
36 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
38 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
40 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
41 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
43 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
44 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
45 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
46 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
47 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
50 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
51 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
53 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
54 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
57 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
58 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
60 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
61 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
62 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
63 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
66 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
67 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
68 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
70 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
73 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
74 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
76 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
77 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
78 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
79 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
82 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
83 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
84 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
85 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
88 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
89 shared (NFS) environment.
91 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
92 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
95 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
96 on some platforms for bit 31.
98 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
99 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
100 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
101 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
102 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
103 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
104 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
105 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
107 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
109 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
110 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
112 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
113 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
116 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
117 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
120 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
121 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
122 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
125 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
126 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
127 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
129 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
130 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
131 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
132 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
133 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
135 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
138 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
139 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
140 be requested on all coneections.
142 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
143 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
145 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
147 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
148 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
149 one for these; the option was ignored.
151 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
152 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
153 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
154 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
156 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
157 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
158 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
161 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
162 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
163 error ignored was made.
165 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
167 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
168 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
169 values, to catch one form of exploit.
171 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
172 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
173 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
175 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
176 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
179 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
180 them in our smtp response.
182 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
183 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
184 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
185 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
186 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
188 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
189 link count into consideration.
191 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
192 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
194 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
195 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
196 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
199 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
201 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
203 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
205 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
206 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
207 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
208 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
210 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
212 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
213 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
216 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
217 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
218 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
220 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
221 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
222 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
224 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
225 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
226 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
227 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
228 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
229 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
230 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
231 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
233 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
234 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
235 resulted in an indefinite loop.
237 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
238 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
239 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
245 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
246 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
248 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
249 non-signal-safe functions being used.
251 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
252 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
253 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
255 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
256 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
257 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
259 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
260 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
261 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
262 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
263 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
266 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
267 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
269 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
270 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
271 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
272 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
273 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
274 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
275 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
277 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
278 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
280 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
283 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
284 Previously this would segfault.
286 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
289 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
290 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
291 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
292 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
293 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
294 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
296 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
298 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
299 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
300 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
301 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
303 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
305 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
306 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
307 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
308 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
310 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
312 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
314 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
315 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
316 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
318 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
319 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
320 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
322 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
324 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
325 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
326 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
327 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
329 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
330 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
331 promised '?' replacement.
333 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
335 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
336 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
337 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
338 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
339 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
341 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
342 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
343 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
345 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
346 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
347 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
349 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
350 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
351 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
353 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
354 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
355 hope that is portable enough.
357 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
358 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
359 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
360 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
362 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
363 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
364 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
366 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
367 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
368 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
369 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
371 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
372 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
374 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
375 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
376 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
377 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
379 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
380 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
381 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
383 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
384 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
385 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
386 the previous G, M, k.
388 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
389 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
392 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
393 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
394 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
395 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
397 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
398 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
400 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
401 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
402 off past the nul-terimation.
404 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
405 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
406 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
407 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
408 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
410 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
412 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
413 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
414 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
417 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
418 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
420 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
421 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
422 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
424 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
425 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
426 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
428 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
429 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
435 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
436 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
437 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
438 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
439 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
440 be defined in redis_servers.
442 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
443 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
445 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
446 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
447 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
448 extant use locations.
450 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
451 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
453 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
454 Previously only the last row was returned.
456 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
457 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
458 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
459 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
462 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
463 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
464 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
465 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
466 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
467 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
468 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
469 Main pool for expansions.
470 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
471 active in the testsuite.
472 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
474 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
475 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
476 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
477 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
480 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
481 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
484 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
485 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
486 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
488 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
489 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
490 ClamAV interface method is removed.
492 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
493 rows affected is given instead).
495 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
496 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
498 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
499 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
500 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
501 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
502 for all multi-message initiating connections.
504 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
505 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
506 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
508 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
509 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
510 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
511 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
514 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
515 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
516 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
519 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
521 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
522 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
524 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
525 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
526 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
528 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
529 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
530 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
533 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
534 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
536 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
537 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
538 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
540 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
541 for the build is renamed.
543 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
544 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
545 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
547 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
548 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
549 result replacing the original.
551 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
552 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
553 and the resources needed to be freed.
555 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
557 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
560 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
561 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
562 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
563 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
565 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
566 length value. Previously this would segfault.
568 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
569 newer versions of the scanner.
571 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
572 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
573 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
574 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
575 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
576 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
577 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
579 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
580 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
581 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
582 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
583 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
584 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
585 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
586 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
587 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
588 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
590 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
591 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
593 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
595 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
596 allows proper process termination in container environments.
598 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
599 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
601 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
602 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
603 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
605 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
606 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
607 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
608 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
610 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
611 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
614 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
615 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
617 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
618 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
619 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
620 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
621 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
623 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
624 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
627 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
628 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
630 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
633 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
634 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
635 "bare" representation.
637 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
638 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
639 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
640 corrupted the output.
646 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
647 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
648 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
649 pairs of long lines into single ones.
651 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
652 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
654 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
655 This permits better logging.
657 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
658 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
659 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
660 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
661 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
662 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
664 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
665 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
668 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
669 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
670 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
672 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
673 than 255 are no longer allowed.
675 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
676 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
677 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
678 client, there is no benefit for these.
679 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
680 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
681 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
684 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
685 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
687 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
688 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
689 erroneously found still-pending ones.
691 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
692 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
694 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
695 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
696 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
697 signature and again for transmission.
699 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
700 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
701 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
703 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
704 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
705 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
706 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
707 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
708 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
709 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
711 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
712 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
713 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
714 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
716 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
717 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
718 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
719 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
720 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
721 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
724 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
725 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
726 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
727 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
730 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
731 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
732 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
733 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
736 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
737 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
740 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
741 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
742 banner-time rejection.
744 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
747 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
748 is the name of a transport.
751 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
753 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
754 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
756 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
757 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
758 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
761 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
762 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
763 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
764 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
766 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
767 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
768 initial verify call returned a defer.
770 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
771 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
773 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
774 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
776 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
777 if present. Previously it was ignored.
779 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
780 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
782 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
783 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
786 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
787 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
789 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
790 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
791 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
793 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
794 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
795 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
796 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
798 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
799 and confused the parent.
801 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
802 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
804 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
807 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
808 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
809 out-of-order delivery.
811 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
812 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
813 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
816 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
817 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
820 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
821 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
822 one run was done. Bug 2189.
824 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
825 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
826 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
827 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
828 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
829 message is still "Temporary local problem".
831 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
832 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
833 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
835 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
836 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
837 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
839 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
840 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
841 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
842 though a different problem.
848 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
849 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
851 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
853 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
854 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
856 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
857 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
859 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
860 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
861 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
862 before acknowledging the chunk.
864 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
865 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
866 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
868 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
869 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
870 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
873 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
874 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
875 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
877 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
878 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
880 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
881 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
882 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
883 body hash calculated value.
885 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
886 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
887 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
889 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
891 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
892 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
894 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
895 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
896 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
898 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
899 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
900 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
901 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
902 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
903 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
905 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
906 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
907 past that check, despite the cost.
909 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
910 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
911 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
913 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
914 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
915 TLS library to consume.
917 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
919 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
921 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
922 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
923 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
924 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
925 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
926 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
927 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
929 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
931 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
933 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
934 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
935 should be warning-free.
937 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
939 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
940 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
942 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
943 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
944 general solution here.
946 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
947 already-broken messages in the queue.
949 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
951 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
957 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
958 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
960 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
961 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
962 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
964 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
965 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
966 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
967 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
968 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
969 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
970 if one fails this test.
971 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
972 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
974 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
975 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
977 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
978 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
980 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
981 in rewrites and routers.
983 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
984 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
986 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
987 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
989 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
991 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
994 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
995 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
996 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
997 connection after a verify cache hit.
998 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1000 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1001 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1003 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1004 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1005 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1006 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1007 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1009 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1010 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1012 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1013 Previously they were not counted.
1015 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1016 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1017 that needed the lookup.
1019 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1020 distinguished as "(=".
1022 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1023 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1025 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1027 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1028 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1030 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1031 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1033 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1034 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1037 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1038 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1039 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1040 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1042 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1044 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1045 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1046 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1048 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1049 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1050 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1053 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1054 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1055 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1058 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1059 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1060 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1062 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1063 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1066 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1068 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1069 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1071 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1072 are not in the system include path.
1074 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1075 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1076 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1077 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1079 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1080 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1081 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1083 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1085 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1086 an incoming connection.
1088 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1091 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1092 fallback to "prime256v1".
1094 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1095 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1101 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1102 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1103 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1104 client dropping the TLS connection.
1106 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1107 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1109 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1110 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1111 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1112 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1115 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1116 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1117 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1118 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1119 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1120 check on the next write.
1122 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1123 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1124 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1125 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1126 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1128 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1129 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1131 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1132 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1133 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1135 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1136 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1137 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1138 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1140 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1141 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1143 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1144 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1146 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1147 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1148 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1151 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1153 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1155 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1157 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1158 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1160 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1161 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1163 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1165 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1166 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1168 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1170 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1171 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1173 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1175 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1176 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1177 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1178 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1179 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1180 they will retry in-clear.
1181 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1182 at installation time.
1184 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1185 with the $config_file variable.
1187 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1188 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1189 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1190 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1191 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1193 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1194 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1195 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1196 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1197 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1199 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1201 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1202 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1203 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1204 list order is no longer honoured.
1206 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1207 for DKIM processing.
1209 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1210 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1212 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1213 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1214 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1215 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1217 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1218 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1220 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1221 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1223 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1224 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1226 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1228 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1229 cached by the daemon.
1231 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1232 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1234 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1235 keys are given for lookup.
1237 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1238 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1239 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1240 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1242 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1243 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1244 server-side so match that on older versions.
1246 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1247 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1248 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1250 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1251 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1253 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1254 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1255 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1256 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1257 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1258 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1259 initial truncated version.
1261 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1263 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1265 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1266 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1268 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1270 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1272 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1273 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1276 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1277 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1280 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1281 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1283 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1284 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1287 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1288 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1289 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1291 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1292 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1293 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1294 extraction. Accept either.
1300 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1303 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1305 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1308 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1309 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1310 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1311 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1313 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1314 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1315 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1317 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1318 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1319 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1322 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1325 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1326 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1327 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1328 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1329 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1331 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1332 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1333 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1335 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1337 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1338 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1340 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1341 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1343 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1346 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1347 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1349 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1350 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1351 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1353 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1354 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1355 specify a port-range.
1357 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1358 timeout value per server.
1360 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1361 now have the list separator specified.
1363 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1366 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1369 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1371 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1372 rather than the verbs used.
1374 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1375 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1377 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1379 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1380 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1382 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1383 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1385 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1386 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1388 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1390 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1392 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1393 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1394 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1395 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1397 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1399 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1400 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1402 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1403 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1405 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1407 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1409 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1411 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1412 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1414 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1415 added for tls authenticator.
1417 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1423 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1424 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1425 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1426 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1427 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1428 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1429 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1431 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1432 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1433 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1434 function when detected.
1436 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1437 cause callback expansion.
1439 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1440 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1441 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1442 instead of bool when processing it.
1444 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1445 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1447 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1449 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1451 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1453 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1454 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1456 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1457 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1458 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1459 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1460 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1461 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1463 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1464 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1467 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1468 version 3.3.6 or later.
1470 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1471 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1472 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1473 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1474 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1475 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1478 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1479 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1481 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1482 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1483 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1486 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1487 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1488 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1490 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1491 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1493 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1494 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1497 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1499 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1500 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1502 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1503 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1506 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1508 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1511 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1512 output list separator was used.
1517 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1518 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1521 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1522 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1524 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1526 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1527 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1533 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1535 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1536 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1537 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1538 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1539 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1540 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1542 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1543 utilities have not been installed.
1545 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1546 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1548 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1549 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1551 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1552 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1553 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1554 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1556 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1558 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1559 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1561 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1564 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1566 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1567 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1568 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1570 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1571 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1572 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1573 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1574 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1575 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1577 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1579 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1580 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1582 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1585 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1587 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1589 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1590 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1592 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1593 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1595 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1597 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1599 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1600 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1602 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1603 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1604 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1606 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1607 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1608 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1611 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1613 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1614 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1617 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1618 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1621 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1622 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1624 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1625 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1627 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1629 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1630 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1631 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1633 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1634 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1636 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1637 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1640 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1641 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1642 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1644 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1646 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1647 Christian Aistleitner.
1649 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1651 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1652 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1654 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1655 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1657 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1658 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1660 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1661 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1663 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1664 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1666 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1667 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1668 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1670 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1672 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1673 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1676 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1678 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1679 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1686 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1688 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1689 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1691 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1694 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1695 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1698 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1700 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1701 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1702 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1703 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1704 using channel bindings instead).
1706 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1707 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1708 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1709 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1710 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1713 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1715 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1717 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1718 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1720 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1721 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1722 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1724 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1726 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1728 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1729 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1731 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1733 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1735 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1737 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1738 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1740 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1742 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1743 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1746 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1747 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1749 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1750 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1753 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1755 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1757 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1758 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1760 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1763 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1764 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1766 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1767 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1769 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1771 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1773 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1776 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1779 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1781 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1782 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1783 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1784 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1786 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1788 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1789 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1790 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1791 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1794 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1795 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1796 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1798 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1799 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1800 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1801 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1803 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1804 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1805 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1806 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1807 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1808 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1809 delivery, as in LMTP.
1811 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1812 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1814 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1816 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1820 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1821 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1822 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1823 username as equal to the username.
1825 This change corrects that bug.
1827 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1828 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1829 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1831 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1833 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1834 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1835 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1836 NULL dereference and crash.
1838 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1840 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1841 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1842 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1844 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1846 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1847 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1848 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1849 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1850 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1851 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1852 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1853 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1854 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1855 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1856 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1858 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1859 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1861 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1862 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1865 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1866 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1867 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1868 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1869 an empty string is now equivalent.
1871 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1872 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1873 not performing validation itself.
1875 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1876 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1878 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1881 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1883 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1884 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1885 other false fix of the same issue.
1886 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1889 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1890 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1892 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1893 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1894 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1896 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1897 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1898 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1900 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1902 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1904 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1905 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1907 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1910 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1911 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1912 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1913 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1914 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1916 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1917 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1919 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1920 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1923 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1924 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1925 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1926 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1928 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1930 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1931 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1932 from multiple comments on this bug.
1934 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1936 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1937 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1940 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1941 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1943 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1944 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1950 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1952 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1958 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1959 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1960 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1962 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1964 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1967 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1969 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1971 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1973 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1974 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1976 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1977 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1979 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1980 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1982 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1983 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1984 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1986 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1988 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1989 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1991 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1993 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1995 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1996 non-compliant senders.
1997 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1999 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2000 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2001 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2003 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2004 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2005 in spool file corruption.
2007 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2008 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2009 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2012 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2013 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2014 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2016 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2017 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2019 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2021 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2023 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2025 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2026 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2027 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2029 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2030 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2031 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2032 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2034 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2035 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2037 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2038 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2039 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2040 resolver implementation change.
2042 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2043 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2045 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2047 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2049 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2050 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2052 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2053 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2055 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2056 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2058 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2059 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2060 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2061 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2062 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2064 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2066 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2067 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2068 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2070 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2072 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2073 read-only, out of scope).
2074 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2076 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2077 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2078 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2079 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2081 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2083 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2084 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2085 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2086 real issues in debug logging.
2088 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2089 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2091 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2092 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2093 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2095 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2096 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2097 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2100 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2101 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2103 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2104 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2105 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2106 needs to override this, it can.
2108 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2109 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2110 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2112 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2113 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2114 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2115 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2117 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2123 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2124 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2126 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2128 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2131 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2132 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2134 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2135 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2136 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2138 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2139 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2140 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2141 not safe for signals.
2143 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2144 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2145 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2146 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2149 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2151 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2152 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2153 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2154 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2155 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2157 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2158 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2159 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2160 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2161 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2162 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2164 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2165 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2166 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2167 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2169 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2170 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2171 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2172 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2174 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2175 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2176 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2177 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2178 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2179 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2180 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2181 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2182 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2184 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2185 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2186 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2187 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2189 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2190 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2191 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2192 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2193 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2194 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2195 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2196 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2197 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2198 details in the main documentation.
2200 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2202 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2204 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2205 repository when doing development or release builds.
2207 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2208 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2210 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2211 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2214 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2216 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2217 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2219 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2220 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2222 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2223 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2225 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2226 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2228 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2229 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2231 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2233 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2236 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2237 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2238 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2240 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2242 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2244 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2245 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2251 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2253 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2254 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2256 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2258 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2260 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2263 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2264 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2266 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2267 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2269 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2270 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2272 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2275 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2276 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2278 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2279 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2280 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2281 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2283 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2284 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2290 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2293 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2294 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2295 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2297 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2298 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2300 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2301 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2302 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2304 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2305 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2307 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2308 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2310 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2311 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2313 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2314 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2316 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2317 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2319 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2322 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2323 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2325 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2326 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2328 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2329 SQL string expansion failure details.
2330 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2332 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2333 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2335 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2336 extern declarations in function scope.
2337 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2339 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2340 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2341 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2344 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2345 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2347 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2348 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2350 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2351 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2353 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2354 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2356 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2357 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2360 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2362 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2364 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2365 Patch by Simon Arlott
2367 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2368 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2374 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2375 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2377 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2378 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2380 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2382 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2383 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2384 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2386 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2387 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2388 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2390 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2391 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2392 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2393 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2395 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2396 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2397 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2398 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2400 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2401 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2402 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2405 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2408 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2409 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2410 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2411 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2412 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2418 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2419 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2420 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2422 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2423 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2425 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2427 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2429 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2431 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2433 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2435 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2436 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2437 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2438 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2440 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2441 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2442 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2443 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2444 more caution in buffer sizes.
2446 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2448 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2450 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2452 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2454 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2456 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2458 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2460 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2461 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2462 ignore trailing whitespace.
2464 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2466 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2469 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2470 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2472 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2473 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2474 Notification from John Horne.
2476 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2479 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2480 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2483 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2486 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2487 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2488 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2490 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2491 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2492 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2495 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2496 option (effectively making it always true).
2498 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2499 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2501 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2502 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2504 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2505 run-time user, instead of root.
2507 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2508 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2510 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2511 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2514 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2515 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2516 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2518 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2520 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2526 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2527 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2530 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2531 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2534 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2535 Patch from Alain Williams
2537 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2539 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2540 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2542 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2543 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2545 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2547 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2549 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2550 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2552 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2554 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2556 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2557 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2558 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2560 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2561 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2563 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2564 Patch by Simon Arlott
2566 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2567 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2573 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2575 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2577 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2579 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2581 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2587 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2588 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2590 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2591 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2594 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2595 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2596 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2598 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2599 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2601 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2602 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2603 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2604 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2606 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2607 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2608 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2610 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2612 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2614 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2615 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2617 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2619 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2620 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2621 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2622 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2624 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2625 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2627 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2629 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2631 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2632 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2634 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2635 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2637 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2638 that they are available at delivery time.
2640 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2642 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2643 incoming_port log selectors.
2645 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2646 setting expands to an empty string.
2648 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2649 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2651 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2652 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2654 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2655 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2657 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2658 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2660 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2661 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2663 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2664 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2666 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2668 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2669 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2671 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2672 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2674 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2676 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2677 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2679 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2681 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2683 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2686 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2687 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2689 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2690 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2692 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2693 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2695 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2696 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2698 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2699 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2701 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2702 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2704 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2705 plus update to original patch.
2707 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2709 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2710 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2712 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2714 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2716 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2718 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2720 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2721 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2723 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2724 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2726 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2727 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2729 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2730 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2732 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2734 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2736 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2738 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2744 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2745 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2746 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2748 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2749 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2750 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2751 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2752 build errors in sieve.c.
2754 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2755 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2756 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2758 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2760 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2762 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2764 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2770 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2772 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2773 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2774 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2775 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2776 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2777 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2778 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2779 for iplsearch lookups.
2781 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2782 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2783 previously such lookups could never work.
2785 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2786 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2787 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2789 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2792 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2793 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2794 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2795 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2796 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2797 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2799 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2800 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2802 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2803 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2804 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2805 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2806 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2807 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2809 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2812 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2814 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2815 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2818 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2819 by clients under certain conditions.
2821 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2822 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2824 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2826 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2827 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2829 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2831 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2833 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2835 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2836 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2838 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2840 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2841 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2843 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2845 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2847 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2848 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2849 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2850 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2852 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2853 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2854 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2856 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2857 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2859 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2861 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2863 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2865 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2866 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2867 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2873 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2874 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2877 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2878 issue a MAIL command.
2880 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2882 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2884 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2885 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2886 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2887 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2888 item. This has been fixed.
2890 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2891 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2893 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2894 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2896 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2897 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2898 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2900 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2902 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2903 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2904 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2905 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2906 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2908 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2909 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2910 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2912 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2913 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2914 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2915 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2917 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2919 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2921 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2922 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2923 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2924 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2925 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2927 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2929 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2930 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2931 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2934 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2936 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2938 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2940 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2942 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2944 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2945 no_callout_flush is set.
2947 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2948 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2949 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2952 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2954 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2955 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2956 other ACL rejections are.
2958 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2959 with slight modification.
2961 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2962 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2964 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2965 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2968 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2969 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2971 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2973 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2974 expansion side effects.
2976 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2977 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2978 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2981 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2982 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2983 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2985 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2986 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2987 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2988 were accidentally chopped off.
2990 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2991 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2992 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2993 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2994 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2995 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2996 pipelining has not been advertised.
2998 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3000 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3001 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3002 This has been fixed.
3004 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3005 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3006 reported on Solaris.
3008 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3009 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3010 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3011 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3012 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3013 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3014 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3016 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3019 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3021 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3023 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3024 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3025 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3026 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3027 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3028 criteria to be more general.
3030 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3031 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3032 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3033 host_all_ignored option.
3035 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3036 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3037 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3038 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3039 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3040 is what is supposed to happen).
3042 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3043 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3044 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3045 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3046 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3049 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3050 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3051 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3052 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3053 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3054 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3057 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3059 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3060 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3062 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3063 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3065 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3067 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3069 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3070 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3071 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3072 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3073 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3074 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3075 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3076 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3077 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3078 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3079 least in a lot of common cases.
3081 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3082 advertised in response to EHLO.
3088 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3089 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3091 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3092 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3094 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3095 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3096 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3098 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3099 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3100 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3101 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3102 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3108 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3109 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3112 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3113 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3114 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3116 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3117 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3118 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3119 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3120 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3121 rather than extend the field.
3127 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3128 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3129 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3130 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3133 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3134 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3135 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3137 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3138 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3139 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3141 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3142 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3143 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3146 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3147 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3148 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3149 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3150 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3151 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3152 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3153 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3154 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3155 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3156 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3158 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3161 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3162 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3163 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3164 ignores EPIPE as well.
3166 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3167 (quoted-printable decoding).
3169 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3170 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3172 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3174 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3176 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3178 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3179 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3181 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3184 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3185 miscellaneous code fixes
3187 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3190 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3191 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3192 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3193 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3194 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3195 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3196 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3197 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3199 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3200 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3201 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3202 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3204 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3205 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3206 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3207 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3208 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3209 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3210 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3211 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3212 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3214 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3217 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3218 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3219 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3220 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3221 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3222 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3223 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3224 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3226 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3227 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3230 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3231 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3232 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3233 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3234 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3235 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3236 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3237 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3238 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3239 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3240 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3241 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3242 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3244 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3245 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3246 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3247 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3248 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3249 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3250 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3252 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3253 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3254 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3255 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3256 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3257 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3258 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3259 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3260 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3261 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3263 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3264 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3265 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3266 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3267 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3269 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3270 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3271 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3272 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3273 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3274 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3275 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3277 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3278 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3279 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3280 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3281 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3282 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3285 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3286 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3287 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3290 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3291 if any retry times were supplied.
3293 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3294 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3295 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3297 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3299 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3301 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3302 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3303 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3304 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3305 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3306 before) are ignored.
3308 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3309 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3311 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3312 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3313 committing the later change.]
3315 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3316 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3317 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3318 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3319 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3320 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3321 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3322 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3323 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3325 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3326 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3327 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3328 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3329 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3330 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3331 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3332 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3333 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3335 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3336 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3337 hammering the server.
3339 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3340 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3342 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3344 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3345 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3346 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3348 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3349 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3350 one case where this was not true.
3352 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3353 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3354 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3355 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3358 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3359 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3360 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3361 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3362 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3363 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3364 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3365 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3366 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3369 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3370 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3371 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3372 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3374 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3375 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3377 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3378 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3379 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3381 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3383 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3385 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3387 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3388 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3389 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3390 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3392 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3393 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3395 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3396 be meaningful with "accept".
3398 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3399 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3401 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3402 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3403 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3405 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3406 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3407 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3408 there is data to show.
3409 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3411 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3412 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3413 as well as the number of messages.
3415 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3416 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3417 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3419 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3420 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3421 have a flag are now skipped.
3423 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3424 Added the -emptyok flag.
3426 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3427 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3429 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3430 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3431 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3433 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3436 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3437 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3439 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3441 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3442 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3444 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3446 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3447 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3448 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3449 contravention of the specifications.
3451 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3452 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3453 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3455 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3456 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3457 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3459 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3461 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3462 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3463 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3464 some point in the past.
3466 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3467 transport during callout processing was broken.
3469 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3470 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3472 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3473 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3475 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3476 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3478 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3484 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3485 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3487 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3488 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3489 there is data to show.
3490 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3492 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3493 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3495 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3496 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3498 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3499 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3501 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3502 submissions from trusted users.
3504 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3505 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3507 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3508 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3509 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3510 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3511 there is now a framework to start from.
3513 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3514 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3515 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3517 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3519 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3521 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3523 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3524 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3525 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3527 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3530 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3531 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3532 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3534 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3535 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3536 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3539 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3540 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3541 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3542 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3543 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3545 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3546 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3548 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3550 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3551 operations in malware.c.
3553 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3556 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3557 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3558 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3561 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3562 statements to "add_header".
3564 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3565 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3567 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3568 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3571 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3575 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3576 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3577 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3580 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3581 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3583 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3584 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3586 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3587 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3588 any possible encoding problems.
3590 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3591 but not after initializing Perl.
3593 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3594 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3595 apparently, which is not desirable.
3597 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3600 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3603 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3605 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3606 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3607 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3608 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3610 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3611 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3612 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3614 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3615 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3616 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3619 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3620 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3621 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3622 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3623 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3629 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3630 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3632 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3635 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3636 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3637 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3638 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3639 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3640 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3641 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3642 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3645 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3647 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3648 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3649 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3651 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3652 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3653 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3656 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3657 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3659 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3660 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3661 option (which defaults to 0600).
3663 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3665 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3666 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3667 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3668 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3669 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3670 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3671 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3673 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3679 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3680 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3681 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3682 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3683 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3684 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3687 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3688 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3690 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3692 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3693 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3694 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3695 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3696 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3699 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3700 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3702 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3703 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3704 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3705 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3706 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3708 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3709 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3710 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3711 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3713 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3714 be the same on different OS.
3716 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3719 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3720 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3722 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3725 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3726 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3727 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3728 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3729 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3730 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3733 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3734 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3735 when Exim was called.
3737 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3738 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3740 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3741 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3742 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3743 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3745 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3746 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3747 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3748 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3751 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3752 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3753 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3755 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3756 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3757 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3759 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3762 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3763 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3764 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3765 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3766 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3767 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3768 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3769 values from the SRV records were lost.
3771 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3772 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3773 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3775 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3776 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3777 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3779 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3780 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3781 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3782 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3783 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3784 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3785 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3786 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3787 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3788 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3790 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3791 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3792 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3794 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3795 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3797 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3798 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3799 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3800 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3803 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3804 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3805 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3807 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3808 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3809 PH/23 above applies.
3811 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3812 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3813 (for which there is an explicit test).
3815 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3817 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3818 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3819 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3820 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3821 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3823 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3824 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3825 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3826 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3828 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3829 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3830 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3832 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3834 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3836 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3837 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3838 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3840 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3841 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3842 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3843 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3844 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3846 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3847 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3848 the message gets confusing).
3850 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3851 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3852 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3853 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3855 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3856 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3857 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3858 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3861 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3862 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3863 the different processes.
3865 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3867 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3869 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3870 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3872 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3873 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3875 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3876 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3877 messages matching specified criteria.
3879 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3881 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3882 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3884 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3885 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3886 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3887 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3888 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3889 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3890 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3891 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3892 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3893 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3895 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3896 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3897 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3899 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3901 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3902 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3903 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3904 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3905 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3906 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3907 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3910 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3911 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3913 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3915 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3917 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3919 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3920 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3921 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3922 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3923 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3924 size of the count of files.
3926 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3928 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3931 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3932 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3933 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3934 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3936 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3937 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3938 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3940 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3941 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3942 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3943 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3944 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3946 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3947 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3949 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3950 will now be deprecated.
3952 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3954 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3955 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3956 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3958 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3959 with very large, slow to parse queues
3961 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3963 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3965 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3966 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3967 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3970 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3971 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3972 Sieve code now uses this.
3974 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3975 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3977 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3978 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3980 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3982 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3983 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3984 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3985 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3986 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3988 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3989 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3990 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3991 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3993 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3995 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3997 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3998 is preferred over IPv4.
4000 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4001 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4002 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4003 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4004 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4005 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4006 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4008 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4009 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4010 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4012 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4014 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4015 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4016 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4017 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4018 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4019 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4020 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4021 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4022 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4023 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4024 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4026 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4027 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4028 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4034 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4036 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4037 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4039 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4040 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4041 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4043 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4045 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4048 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4051 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4052 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4053 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4056 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4057 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4059 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4060 inside the third argument.
4062 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4063 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4066 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4067 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4069 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4070 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4072 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4074 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4075 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4078 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4080 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4081 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4082 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4083 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4084 identical. For example:
4086 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4088 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4089 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4090 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4092 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4093 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4094 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4095 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4097 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4098 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4099 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4102 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4104 o fixes some comments
4105 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4106 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4107 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4108 and documents the missing references header update
4112 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4113 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4116 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4117 Electronic Mail") by including:
4119 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4121 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4122 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4123 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4124 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4125 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4127 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4129 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4131 The auto-replied keyword:
4133 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4134 message by an automatic process,
4136 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4138 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4139 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4141 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4142 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4145 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4146 to the default Received: header definition.
4148 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4150 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4151 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4152 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4154 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4155 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4156 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4158 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4159 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4160 and treats the condition as false.
4162 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4164 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4165 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4166 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4167 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4168 not changing the active code.
4170 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4171 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4173 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4174 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4176 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4179 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4180 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4181 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4182 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4183 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4184 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4185 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4186 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4187 the text comparison.
4189 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4190 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4191 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4192 The same fix has been applied.
4198 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4199 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4202 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4203 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4205 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4207 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4208 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4209 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4210 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4211 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4213 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4214 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4215 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4216 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4219 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4227 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4228 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4230 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4232 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4234 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4235 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4236 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4238 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4239 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4240 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4242 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4243 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4246 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4247 ${stat: expansion item.
4249 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4250 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4252 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4253 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4256 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4258 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4261 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4262 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4264 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4266 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4267 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4268 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4269 the end of the subprocess.
4271 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4272 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4273 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4274 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4275 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4277 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4279 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4281 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4282 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4284 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4286 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4288 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4289 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4292 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4294 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4295 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4296 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4298 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4299 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4301 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4302 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4304 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4305 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4307 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4308 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4310 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4311 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4312 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4313 contributed by a Radius user.
4315 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4316 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4318 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4319 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4321 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4324 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4325 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4328 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4329 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4330 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4331 header lines when this was not necessary.
4333 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4335 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4336 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4337 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4340 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4343 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4344 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4345 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4346 return code was incorrect.
4348 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4350 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4352 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4354 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4356 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4357 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4358 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4359 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4360 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4363 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4365 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4366 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4367 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4368 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4369 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4370 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4371 which is clearly wrong.
4373 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4375 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4376 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4377 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4380 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4381 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4383 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4385 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4386 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4388 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4389 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4391 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4392 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4394 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4395 recipients, not senders.
4397 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4398 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4400 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4402 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4404 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4405 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4406 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4407 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4409 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4411 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4412 clock is set back in time.
4414 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4415 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4417 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4418 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4420 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4421 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4424 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4425 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4428 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4431 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4433 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4434 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4435 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4437 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4438 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4439 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4440 helo verification defer as a failure.
4442 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4443 actual error message.
4449 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4451 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4452 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4453 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4454 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4456 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4458 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4459 can still be requested.
4461 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4462 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4463 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4464 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4466 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4467 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4468 circumstances, but probably never did.
4470 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4471 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4472 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4475 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4477 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4478 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4480 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4482 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4484 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4485 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4486 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4487 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4488 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4489 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4491 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4492 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4493 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4494 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4495 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4496 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4498 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4499 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4501 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4502 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4504 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4505 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4507 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4509 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4511 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4513 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4515 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4517 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4519 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4521 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4522 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4523 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4525 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4526 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4527 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4528 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4530 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4531 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4532 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4534 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4535 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4536 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4537 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4539 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4540 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4543 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4544 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4545 should work with maildirs and everything.
4547 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4548 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4550 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4553 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4554 function for BDB 4.3.
4556 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4558 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4559 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4562 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4563 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4564 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4565 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4566 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4567 formatting function string_vformat().
4569 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4570 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4571 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4572 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4573 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4574 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4575 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4576 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4578 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4579 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4582 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4583 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4585 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4586 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4587 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4588 test. It is now used for both.
4590 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4591 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4592 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4593 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4594 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4595 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4597 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4598 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4599 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4602 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4603 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4604 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4606 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4607 experimental DomainKeys support:
4609 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4610 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4611 the control was given.
4613 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4615 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4617 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4619 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4620 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4621 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4624 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4625 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4626 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4627 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4628 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4629 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4632 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4633 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4634 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4635 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4636 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4637 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4639 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4640 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4641 do -d+all out of habit.
4643 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4644 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4647 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4648 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4649 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4650 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4651 record types that Exim uses.
4653 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4654 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4655 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4656 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4657 non-existent file that was broken.
4659 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4660 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4662 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4663 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4664 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4666 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4668 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4669 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4670 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4671 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4672 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4675 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4676 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4677 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4678 at a slight CPU cost.
4680 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4681 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4683 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4686 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4688 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4689 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4695 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4696 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4698 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4700 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4702 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4703 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4705 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4706 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4707 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4708 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4709 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4710 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4713 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4714 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4715 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4716 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4719 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4720 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4721 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4722 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4723 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4724 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4725 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4728 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4729 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4731 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4732 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4733 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4734 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4735 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4736 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4738 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4739 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4740 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4741 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4743 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4746 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4747 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4749 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4750 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4751 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4752 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4755 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4757 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4758 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4760 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4761 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4762 to what was transported.)
4764 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4766 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4767 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4768 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4769 spamd_address settings.
4771 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4772 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4773 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4774 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4775 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4777 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4779 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4780 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4781 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4782 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4783 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4785 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4786 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4788 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4789 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4790 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4791 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4792 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4793 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4794 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4797 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4798 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4799 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4800 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4801 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4802 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4803 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4806 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4808 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4809 driver and ACL definitions.
4811 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4812 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4814 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4815 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4816 understands it better than I do:
4818 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4819 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4821 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4822 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4823 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4824 => three warnings about OTP not working
4825 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4827 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4828 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4829 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4830 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4832 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4833 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4835 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4836 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4837 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4839 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4840 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4843 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4844 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4847 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4848 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4849 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4851 warn !verify = sender
4852 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4854 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4855 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4857 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4859 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4860 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4862 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4863 nomenclature these days.)
4865 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4866 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4868 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4869 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4870 . First host does not offer TLS;
4871 . First host accepts first address;
4872 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4873 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4874 . Second host accepts second address.
4875 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4876 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4879 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4880 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4881 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4882 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4883 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4885 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4886 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4888 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4889 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4891 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4892 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4893 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4895 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4896 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4899 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4901 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4902 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4903 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4904 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4905 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4906 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4907 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4909 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4910 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4911 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4912 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4913 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4915 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4916 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4919 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4920 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4921 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4922 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4923 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4924 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4926 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4928 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4929 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4930 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4931 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4932 printable escape sequences.
4934 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4935 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4938 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4939 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4942 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4943 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4944 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4945 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4946 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4948 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4949 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4950 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4952 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4954 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4955 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4958 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4959 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4960 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4961 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4962 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4963 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4964 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4965 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4966 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4969 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4970 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4971 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4972 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4976 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4977 ----------------------------------------
4979 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4980 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4981 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4982 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4983 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4984 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4987 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4988 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4989 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4990 historical information.
4996 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4998 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4999 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5001 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5002 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5005 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5006 filter fails to execute.
5008 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5009 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5010 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5011 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5012 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5014 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5016 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5017 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5018 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5019 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5021 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5022 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5023 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5024 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5025 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5027 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5029 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5031 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5032 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5033 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5034 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5036 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5037 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5038 sender verification.
5040 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5041 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5043 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5045 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5048 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5049 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5051 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5052 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5054 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5055 information about exactly what failed.
5057 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5059 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5060 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5061 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5063 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5064 It is now set to "smtps".
5066 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5067 ignore_target_hosts.
5069 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5070 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5071 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5072 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5075 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5076 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5077 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5079 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5080 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5081 wake it up if nothing else does.
5083 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5084 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5085 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5088 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5089 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5091 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5093 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5094 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5095 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5096 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5097 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5098 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5099 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5100 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5102 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5103 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5104 than one IP address.
5106 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5107 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5108 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5109 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5111 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5112 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5113 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5114 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5115 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5118 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5119 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5120 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5121 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5123 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5124 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5127 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5128 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5129 $sender_host_address.
5131 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5132 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5133 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5134 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5135 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5138 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5140 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5141 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5143 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5144 just the host names, not the priorities.
5146 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5147 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5148 controlled by a keyword.
5150 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5151 multiple records are returned.
5153 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5154 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5157 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5159 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5160 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5162 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5163 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5164 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5166 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5168 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5170 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5172 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5173 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5174 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5175 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5176 because the tests only now provoked it.
5178 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5179 (this can affect the format of dates).
5181 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5182 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5183 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5184 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5186 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5188 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5189 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5190 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5191 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5193 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5194 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5195 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5197 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5200 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5201 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5202 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5203 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5204 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5205 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5208 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5209 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5210 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5213 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5214 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5215 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5217 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5218 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5219 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5220 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5221 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5222 so I produce this patch..."
5224 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5225 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5228 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5229 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5230 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5231 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5234 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5236 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5237 long debug lines gets shown.
5239 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5240 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5242 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5244 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5245 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5246 of $primary_hostname.
5248 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5249 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5250 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5251 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5252 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5253 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5254 by change 4.50/55 above.
5256 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5257 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5258 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5259 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5260 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5261 running as the user.
5264 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5265 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5266 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5269 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5270 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5272 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5273 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5274 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5275 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5276 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5278 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5279 This has been fixed.
5281 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5282 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5283 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5284 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5287 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5289 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5290 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5291 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5292 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5294 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5295 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5297 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5298 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5299 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5301 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5302 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5303 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5306 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5307 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5308 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5310 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5311 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5312 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5313 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5315 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5316 during host lookups.
5318 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5319 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5321 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5323 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5324 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5325 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5326 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5327 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5330 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5331 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5333 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5334 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5335 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5337 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5339 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5340 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5341 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5342 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5343 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5344 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5347 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5348 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5349 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5350 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5351 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5353 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5356 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5358 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5359 "vacation" handling.
5361 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5362 OS variants using glibc.
5364 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5367 ----------------------------------------------------
5368 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5369 ----------------------------------------------------
5375 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5376 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5379 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5380 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5383 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5384 filter fails to execute.
5386 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5387 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5388 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5389 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5390 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5392 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5393 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5394 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5395 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5397 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5398 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5399 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5400 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5401 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5403 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5405 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5406 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5407 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5408 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5410 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5411 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5412 sender verification.
5414 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5415 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5417 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5418 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5420 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5421 ignore_target_hosts.
5423 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5424 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5425 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5426 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5429 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5430 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5431 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5433 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5434 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5435 wake it up if nothing else does.
5437 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5438 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5439 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5442 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5443 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5445 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5447 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5448 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5451 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5452 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5455 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5456 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5457 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5458 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5459 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5462 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5463 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5466 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5467 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5468 $sender_host_address.
5470 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5472 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5473 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5474 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5476 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5479 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5480 (this can affect the format of dates).
5482 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5483 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5484 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5485 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5487 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5488 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5489 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5491 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5492 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5493 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5494 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5496 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5497 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5498 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5500 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5503 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5504 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5505 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5506 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5507 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5508 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5511 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5512 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5513 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5514 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5517 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5518 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5519 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5520 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5521 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5522 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5523 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5525 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5526 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5527 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5528 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5529 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5530 running as the user.
5533 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5534 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5535 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5538 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5539 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5540 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5541 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5542 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5544 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5545 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5546 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5547 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5550 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5551 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5552 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5553 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5554 because the tests only now provoked it.
5560 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5561 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5562 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5563 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5564 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5565 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5566 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5568 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5569 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5572 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5574 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5576 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5577 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5580 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5581 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5582 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5583 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5584 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5586 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5587 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5589 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5591 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5593 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5596 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5597 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5599 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5600 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5601 affecting debugging statements).
5603 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5605 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5606 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5607 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5608 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5609 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5610 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5611 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5612 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5613 after the received time, and all would be well.
5615 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5616 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5617 condition in an expansion string.
5619 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5621 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5622 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5623 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5624 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5625 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5626 job under whatever limits there are.
5628 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5630 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5633 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5634 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5635 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5636 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5639 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5640 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5641 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5642 binary data in such strings.
5644 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5646 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5647 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5648 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5649 failure, which is pointless.
5651 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5653 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5655 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5656 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5657 Sender: header lines.
5659 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5660 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5661 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5663 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5664 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5665 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5666 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5667 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5670 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5671 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5672 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5673 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5674 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5676 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5677 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5678 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5681 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5682 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5684 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5685 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5687 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5689 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5691 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5693 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5696 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5698 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5700 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5701 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5702 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5703 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5705 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5706 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5712 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5713 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5714 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5716 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5717 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5718 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5719 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5720 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5721 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5723 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5724 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5725 verification failure".
5727 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5728 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5729 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5730 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5732 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5733 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5734 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5735 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5736 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5737 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5738 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5739 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5740 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5741 treated as a timeout.
5743 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5744 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5745 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5746 not set for Exim filters).
5748 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5749 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5750 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5752 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5754 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5755 try to make them clearer.
5757 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5758 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5760 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5762 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5764 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5765 only the Cygwin environment.
5767 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5768 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5769 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5770 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5771 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5773 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5774 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5775 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5776 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5777 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5778 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5779 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5781 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5782 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5784 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5786 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5787 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5788 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5790 To: susanne@some.where
5792 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5793 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5794 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5795 of addresses in From: header lines).
5797 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5798 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5799 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5801 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5802 treated as non-personal.
5804 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5805 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5807 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5809 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5811 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5812 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5813 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5815 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5816 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5818 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5819 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5820 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5821 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5822 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5823 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5825 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5826 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5827 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5828 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5829 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5830 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5831 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5832 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5834 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5836 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5837 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5839 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5840 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5841 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5843 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5844 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5846 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5847 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5848 rather than long int.
5850 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5852 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5858 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5859 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5860 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5861 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5862 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5863 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5869 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5870 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5872 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5873 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5874 socklen_t is defined.
5876 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5879 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5882 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5883 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5884 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5885 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5886 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5888 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5889 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5890 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5891 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5893 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5894 of flapping under certain conditions.
5896 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5897 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5898 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5900 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5902 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5904 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5905 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5906 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5907 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5909 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5910 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5911 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5912 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5913 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5914 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5915 preserved with the message after it was received.
5917 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5918 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5919 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5920 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5921 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5922 test suite worked just fine.
5924 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5925 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5926 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5928 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5929 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5932 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5933 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5934 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5935 does not fully solve it.
5937 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5938 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5939 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5940 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5941 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5943 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5944 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5945 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5947 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5948 string, for example:
5950 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5952 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5953 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5954 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5955 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5956 the routers could not see them.
5958 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5959 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5961 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5962 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5965 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5966 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5967 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5968 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5969 that needed quoting.
5971 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5972 was not being matched caselessly.
5974 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5977 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5978 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5979 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5980 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5981 when use_sender is false.
5983 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5985 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5987 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5989 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5990 the configuration file.
5992 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5993 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5995 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5997 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5998 bytes in the message body.
6000 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6001 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6004 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6006 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6008 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6009 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6010 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6011 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6018 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6019 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6021 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6022 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6023 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6024 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6025 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6027 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6028 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6030 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6031 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6032 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6034 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6035 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6036 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6038 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6041 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6042 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6043 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6044 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6045 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6046 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6047 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6053 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6054 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6055 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6056 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6057 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6058 default (and expected) setting.
6060 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6061 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6062 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6063 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6065 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6066 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6068 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6071 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6072 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6073 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6074 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6075 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6076 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6078 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6079 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6080 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6082 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6083 part (NOT match_host).
6085 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6087 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6088 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6089 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6090 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6091 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6092 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6093 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6094 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6095 the same named file.
6097 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6098 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6101 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6102 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6103 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6104 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6107 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6108 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6109 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6111 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6113 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6115 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6117 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6118 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6120 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6121 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6122 before starting the TLS session.
6124 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6126 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6127 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6129 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6130 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6131 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6132 colon in the middle).
6138 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6139 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6140 multiple configurations are in use.
6142 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6143 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6144 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6145 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6146 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6147 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6149 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6150 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6152 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6153 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6154 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6156 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6157 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6160 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6161 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6163 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6165 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6166 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6168 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6176 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6177 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6178 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6179 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6180 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6182 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6185 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6186 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6187 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6188 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6189 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6190 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6192 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6193 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6194 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6195 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6196 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6197 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6198 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6201 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6202 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6203 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6204 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6205 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6207 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6209 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6210 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6211 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6213 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6215 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6216 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6217 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6220 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6221 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6223 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6224 Three changes have been made:
6226 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6227 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6228 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6229 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6230 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6232 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6235 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6236 the modified behaviour.
6242 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6245 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6246 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6248 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6249 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6250 try to track down a specific problem.
6252 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6253 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6254 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6256 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6259 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6260 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6261 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6262 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6263 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6264 some earlier ones do not.
6266 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6268 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6269 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6270 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6271 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6272 address literals are enabled, of course).
6274 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6276 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6277 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6278 by a command such as
6282 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6284 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6286 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6287 remained set. It is now erased.
6289 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6290 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6292 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6293 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6294 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6295 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6296 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6297 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6298 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6299 appropriate error code.
6301 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6302 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6303 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6304 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6305 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6306 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6308 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6309 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6310 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6312 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6313 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6314 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6315 terminate the header.
6317 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6318 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6319 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6321 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6322 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6323 (4.30/29). In particular:
6325 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6328 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6329 to write a maildirsize file.
6331 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6332 the transport, the new value overrides.
6334 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6337 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6338 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6339 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6342 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6343 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6344 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6347 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6348 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6349 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6351 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6352 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6355 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6356 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6357 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6359 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6361 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6363 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6365 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6366 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6369 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6370 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6371 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6372 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6373 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6374 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6375 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6378 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6379 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6380 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6381 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6382 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6385 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6386 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6387 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6388 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6389 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6390 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6391 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6392 cached value only when the same options are set.
6394 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6396 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6397 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6398 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6399 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6400 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6402 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6403 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6404 it is clearly obsolete.
6406 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6409 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6410 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6411 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6414 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6415 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6416 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6417 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6418 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6420 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6421 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6422 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6423 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6425 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6427 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6429 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6430 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6433 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6434 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6435 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6436 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6437 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6438 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6441 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6442 with the -f command-line option.
6444 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6445 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6446 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6447 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6448 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6449 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6451 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6452 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6455 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6456 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6457 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6458 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6459 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6460 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6461 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6462 buffer is too small.
6464 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6465 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6467 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6468 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6469 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6470 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6471 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6472 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6473 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6474 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6475 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6477 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6478 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6479 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6481 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6482 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6485 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6486 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6487 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6488 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6489 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6491 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6492 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6493 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6494 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6497 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6499 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6501 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6502 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6504 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6505 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6506 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6508 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6509 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6510 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6511 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6512 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6514 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6515 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6516 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6517 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6518 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6519 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6520 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6522 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6523 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6524 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6525 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6526 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6527 the test of how many are available.
6529 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6530 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6531 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6532 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6533 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6534 new message is started.
6536 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6537 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6539 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6540 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6542 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6543 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6544 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6547 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6548 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6549 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6550 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6551 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6552 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6553 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6555 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6556 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6557 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6558 interpreted as octal.
6560 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6563 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6564 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6565 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6566 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6567 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6568 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6570 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6571 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6572 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6573 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6575 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6576 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6577 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6578 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6580 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6581 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6584 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6585 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6587 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6589 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6590 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6591 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6592 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6594 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6595 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6596 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6597 supplied", which is not helpful.
6599 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6600 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6601 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6603 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6604 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6605 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6606 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6607 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6608 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6609 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6610 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6612 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6613 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6614 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6615 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6616 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6618 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6619 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6620 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6621 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6622 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6623 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6625 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6626 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6627 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6629 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6631 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6632 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6633 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6636 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6638 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6639 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6640 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6641 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6642 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6643 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6644 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6645 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6647 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6648 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6649 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6650 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6651 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6653 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6656 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6657 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6658 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6659 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6660 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6661 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6662 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6663 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6664 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6670 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6671 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6672 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6674 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6677 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6678 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6679 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6681 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6682 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6683 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6684 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6685 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6686 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6688 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6689 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6690 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6691 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6692 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6693 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6694 the Exim test suite.
6696 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6697 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6698 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6699 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6701 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6702 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6703 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6704 specify it in this variable.
6706 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6707 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6708 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6709 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6711 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6712 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6713 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6714 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6716 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6717 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6718 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6719 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6720 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6722 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6724 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6727 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6728 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6729 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6730 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6731 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6733 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6734 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6736 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6737 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6738 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6739 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6740 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6742 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6743 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6745 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6746 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6747 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6749 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6750 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6752 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6753 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6755 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6756 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6757 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6759 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6760 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6762 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6763 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6764 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6765 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6767 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6769 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6770 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6771 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6772 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6774 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6776 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6777 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6779 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6781 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6782 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6783 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6784 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6785 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6786 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6788 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6790 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6791 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6794 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6796 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6797 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6799 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6800 550 Sender verify failed
6802 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6803 the final line of the response.
6805 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6806 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6807 all other user lookups.
6809 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6812 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6813 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6814 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6815 result into an int without checking.
6817 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6818 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6819 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6821 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6822 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6823 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6824 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6826 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6829 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6830 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6832 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6833 to the empty sender.
6835 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6836 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6837 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6838 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6839 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6840 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6841 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6844 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6845 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6846 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6847 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6850 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6851 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6853 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6856 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6857 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6859 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6861 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6862 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6865 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6866 as soon as it is encountered.
6868 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6870 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6873 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6874 recognizes a tab character.
6876 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6877 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6878 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6879 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6881 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6883 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6886 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6888 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6890 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6891 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6894 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6895 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6896 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6897 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6898 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6900 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6901 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6903 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6904 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6905 list (.included file names were always shown).
6907 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6908 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6909 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6912 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6913 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6915 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6917 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6919 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6921 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6922 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6923 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6924 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6925 failures to open the logs.
6927 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6928 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6929 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6930 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6931 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6932 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6933 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6939 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6940 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6941 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6944 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6945 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6946 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6948 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6949 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6950 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6952 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6953 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6954 causing some misleading effects.
6956 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6957 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6958 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6960 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6961 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6962 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6963 queue-runner function directly.
6969 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6972 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6973 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6974 was always written to the default place.
6976 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6977 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6978 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6980 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6982 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6984 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6985 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6986 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6988 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6989 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6992 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6993 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6994 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6996 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6997 command line option is disabled.
6999 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7000 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7002 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7004 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7006 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7007 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7009 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7011 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7012 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7013 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7014 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7015 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7016 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7018 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7019 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7022 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7023 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7025 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7026 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7028 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7029 received was valid base64.
7031 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7032 name of the variable that was being set.
7034 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7036 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7037 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7038 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7039 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7040 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7041 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7043 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7045 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7046 nor realm was specified.
7048 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7049 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7050 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7051 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7053 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7054 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7055 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7057 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7058 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7059 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7061 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7062 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7063 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7064 some systems use these upper case variants.
7066 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7067 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7068 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7069 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7071 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7073 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7074 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7076 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7077 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7080 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7082 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7083 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7084 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7085 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7087 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7090 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7091 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7092 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7094 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7095 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7097 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7098 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7099 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7100 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7102 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7103 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7104 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7106 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7108 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7109 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7110 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7111 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7114 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7115 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7116 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7118 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7120 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7121 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7123 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7124 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7126 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7127 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7128 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7129 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7130 when emails are that large.
7137 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7138 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7140 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7141 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7142 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7144 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7145 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7146 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7148 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7149 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7150 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7151 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7152 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7154 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7155 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7156 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7157 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7158 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7161 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7162 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7163 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7164 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7165 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7166 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7167 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7168 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7169 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7170 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7171 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7172 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7173 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7174 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7176 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7177 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7180 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7181 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7182 error should be diagnosed.
7184 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7185 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7186 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7187 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7188 appeared instead of "NULL".
7190 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7191 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7192 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7193 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7194 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7195 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7198 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7199 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7200 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7206 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7207 or receiver verification errors.
7209 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7212 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7213 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7214 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7215 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7217 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7218 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7219 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7220 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7221 shouldn't happen again.
7223 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7224 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7225 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7227 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7228 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7230 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7232 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7233 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7235 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7236 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7239 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7240 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7241 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7243 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7244 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7245 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7246 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7248 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7249 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7250 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7251 to define what should happen).
7253 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7254 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7255 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7257 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7259 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7261 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7262 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7264 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7265 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7266 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7267 structure in all cases.
7269 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7270 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7271 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7272 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7274 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7275 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7278 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7279 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7281 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7282 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7284 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7285 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7286 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7288 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7289 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7290 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7292 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7293 the book and for uniformity.
7295 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7297 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7298 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7299 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7300 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7301 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7302 non-existent command as the problem.
7304 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7305 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7306 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7308 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7310 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7311 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7312 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7314 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7315 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7316 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7317 timestamps using strftime().
7319 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7320 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7322 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7323 transport-time rewrites.
7325 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7326 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7327 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7328 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7330 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7331 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7333 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7334 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7335 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7336 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7339 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7340 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7341 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7342 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7343 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7344 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7345 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7347 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7348 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7349 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7350 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7351 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7353 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7354 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7355 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7356 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7357 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7358 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7359 remaining text gets split now.
7361 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7362 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7363 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7364 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7366 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7367 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7368 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7369 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7372 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7373 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7374 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7375 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7376 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7377 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7378 passed through if needed.
7380 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7381 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7382 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7383 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7384 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7385 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7387 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7388 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7389 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7390 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7391 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7393 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7394 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7395 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7396 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7397 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7399 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7400 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7403 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7404 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7405 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7406 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7407 mayhem of various kinds.
7409 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7410 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7411 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7412 the right test for positive values.
7414 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7415 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7416 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7417 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7418 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7419 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7420 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7421 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7422 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7423 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7426 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7429 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7430 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7433 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7434 the existing equality matching.
7436 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7437 dealing with inode numbers.
7439 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7440 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7441 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7443 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7444 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7445 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7446 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7449 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7450 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7451 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7452 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7453 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7454 relay addresses has also been removed.
7456 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7458 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7459 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7460 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7462 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7463 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7464 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7465 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7466 processing applies to CR:
7468 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7469 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7471 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7472 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7473 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7474 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7476 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7477 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7478 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7480 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7481 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7482 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7483 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7484 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7485 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7488 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7491 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7492 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7493 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7494 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7497 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7499 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7501 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7503 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7504 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7505 not considered personal.
7507 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7509 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7511 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7513 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7514 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7515 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7516 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7517 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7518 header lines, and spool format errors.
7520 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7521 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7522 for more flexibility.
7524 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7525 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7526 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7528 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7531 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7532 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7533 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7534 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7535 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7536 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7537 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7538 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7539 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7541 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7542 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7543 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7544 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7545 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7546 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7547 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7549 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7550 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7551 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7553 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7554 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7555 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7556 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7557 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7558 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7559 instead of killing the process with assert().
7561 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7562 than Unicode encoding.
7564 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7565 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7566 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7567 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7569 77. Added process_log_path.
7571 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7572 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7574 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7575 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7577 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7578 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7579 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7581 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7582 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7583 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7584 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7585 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7588 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7589 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7592 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7593 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7594 they will be used during message reception.
7600 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.