1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6 Since Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------------
9 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
10 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
11 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
12 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
14 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
15 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
16 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
17 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
18 so could be handling tainted values.
20 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
21 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
22 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
24 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
25 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
26 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
29 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
30 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
31 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
32 to align better with RFC 6125.
34 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
35 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
36 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
37 by adding a relase action in that path.
39 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
40 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
41 dynamically-created buffers.
43 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
44 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
45 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
46 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
53 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
54 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
55 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
57 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
59 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
60 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
63 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
64 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
65 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
67 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
69 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
71 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
72 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
73 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
75 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
76 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
77 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
79 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
80 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
82 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
83 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
86 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
87 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
88 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
89 should both provide the file and set the option.
90 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
92 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
93 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
95 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
96 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
97 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
98 Authentication-Results: header.
100 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
101 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
102 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
103 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
105 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
106 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
107 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
108 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
109 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
110 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
111 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
113 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
114 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
115 copies while it is still usable.
117 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
118 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
119 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
121 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
122 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
124 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
125 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
126 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
127 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
129 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
130 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
131 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
134 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
135 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
136 - the pipe transport command
137 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
138 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
140 - paths used by single-key lookups
141 Previously this was permitted.
143 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
144 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
145 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
146 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
148 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
149 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
150 support larger malloc requests.
152 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
153 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
154 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
155 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
157 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
158 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
159 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
160 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
163 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
164 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
165 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
166 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
167 data being length-specified.
169 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
170 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
171 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
172 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
174 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
175 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
176 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
177 not being properly tracked.
179 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
180 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
181 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
182 minute could be seen.
184 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
185 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
186 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
188 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
189 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
191 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
192 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
195 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
197 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
198 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
200 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
201 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
202 filesystem as sufficient validation.
204 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
205 argument is supplied.
207 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
208 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
209 access under Exim's current working directory.
211 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
212 Previously no event was raised.
214 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
215 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
216 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
219 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
220 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
221 the size of the signature hash.
223 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
224 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
226 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
227 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
228 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
229 dropped between messages.
231 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
232 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
233 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
234 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
236 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
237 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
238 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
239 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
240 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
241 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
242 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
243 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
244 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
246 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
247 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
248 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
250 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
251 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
258 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
259 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
261 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
262 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
265 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
268 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
270 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
272 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
273 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
275 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
276 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
277 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
278 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
279 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
280 suitably configured).
282 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
283 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
285 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
286 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
289 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
290 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
292 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
293 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
294 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
295 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
298 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
299 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
300 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
302 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
305 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
306 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
308 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
309 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
310 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
311 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
314 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
315 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
316 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
317 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
320 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
321 shared (NFS) environment.
323 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
324 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
327 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
328 on some platforms for bit 31.
330 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
331 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
332 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
333 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
334 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
335 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
336 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
337 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
339 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
341 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
342 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
344 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
345 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
348 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
349 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
352 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
353 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
354 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
357 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
358 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
359 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
361 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
362 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
363 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
364 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
365 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
367 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
370 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
371 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
372 be requested on all coneections.
374 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
375 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
377 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
379 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
380 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
381 one for these; the option was ignored.
383 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
384 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
385 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
386 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
388 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
389 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
390 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
393 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
394 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
395 error ignored was made.
397 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
399 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
400 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
401 values, to catch one form of exploit.
403 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
404 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
405 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
407 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
408 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
411 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
412 them in our smtp response.
414 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
415 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
416 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
417 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
418 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
420 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
421 link count into consideration.
423 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
424 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
426 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
427 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
428 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
431 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
433 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
435 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
437 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
438 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
439 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
440 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
442 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
444 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
445 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
448 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
449 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
450 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
452 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
453 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
454 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
456 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
457 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
458 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
459 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
460 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
461 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
462 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
463 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
465 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
466 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
467 resulted in an indefinite loop.
469 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
470 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
471 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
477 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
478 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
480 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
481 non-signal-safe functions being used.
483 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
484 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
485 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
487 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
488 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
489 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
491 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
492 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
493 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
494 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
495 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
498 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
499 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
501 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
502 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
503 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
504 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
505 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
506 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
507 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
509 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
510 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
512 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
515 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
516 Previously this would segfault.
518 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
521 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
522 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
523 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
524 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
525 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
526 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
528 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
530 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
531 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
532 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
533 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
535 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
537 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
538 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
539 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
540 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
542 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
544 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
546 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
547 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
548 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
550 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
551 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
552 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
554 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
556 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
557 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
558 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
559 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
561 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
562 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
563 promised '?' replacement.
565 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
567 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
568 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
569 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
570 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
571 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
573 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
574 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
575 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
577 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
578 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
579 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
581 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
582 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
583 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
585 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
586 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
587 hope that is portable enough.
589 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
590 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
591 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
592 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
594 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
595 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
596 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
598 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
599 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
600 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
601 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
603 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
604 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
606 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
607 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
608 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
609 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
611 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
612 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
613 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
615 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
616 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
617 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
618 the previous G, M, k.
620 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
621 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
624 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
625 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
626 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
627 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
629 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
630 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
632 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
633 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
634 off past the nul-terimation.
636 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
637 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
638 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
639 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
640 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
642 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
644 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
645 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
646 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
649 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
650 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
652 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
653 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
654 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
656 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
657 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
658 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
660 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
661 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
667 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
668 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
669 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
670 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
671 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
672 be defined in redis_servers.
674 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
675 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
677 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
678 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
679 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
680 extant use locations.
682 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
683 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
685 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
686 Previously only the last row was returned.
688 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
689 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
690 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
691 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
694 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
695 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
696 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
697 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
698 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
699 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
700 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
701 Main pool for expansions.
702 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
703 active in the testsuite.
704 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
706 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
707 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
708 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
709 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
712 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
713 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
716 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
717 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
718 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
720 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
721 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
722 ClamAV interface method is removed.
724 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
725 rows affected is given instead).
727 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
728 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
730 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
731 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
732 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
733 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
734 for all multi-message initiating connections.
736 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
737 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
738 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
740 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
741 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
742 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
743 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
746 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
747 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
748 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
751 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
753 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
754 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
756 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
757 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
758 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
760 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
761 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
762 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
765 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
766 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
768 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
769 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
770 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
772 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
773 for the build is renamed.
775 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
776 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
777 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
779 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
780 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
781 result replacing the original.
783 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
784 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
785 and the resources needed to be freed.
787 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
789 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
792 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
793 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
794 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
795 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
797 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
798 length value. Previously this would segfault.
800 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
801 newer versions of the scanner.
803 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
804 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
805 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
806 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
807 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
808 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
809 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
811 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
812 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
813 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
814 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
815 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
816 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
817 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
818 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
819 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
820 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
822 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
823 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
825 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
827 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
828 allows proper process termination in container environments.
830 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
831 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
833 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
834 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
835 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
837 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
838 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
839 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
840 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
842 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
843 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
846 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
847 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
849 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
850 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
851 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
852 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
853 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
855 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
856 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
859 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
860 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
862 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
865 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
866 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
867 "bare" representation.
869 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
870 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
871 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
872 corrupted the output.
878 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
879 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
880 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
881 pairs of long lines into single ones.
883 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
884 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
886 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
887 This permits better logging.
889 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
890 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
891 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
892 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
893 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
894 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
896 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
897 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
900 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
901 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
902 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
904 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
905 than 255 are no longer allowed.
907 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
908 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
909 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
910 client, there is no benefit for these.
911 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
912 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
913 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
916 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
917 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
919 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
920 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
921 erroneously found still-pending ones.
923 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
924 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
926 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
927 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
928 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
929 signature and again for transmission.
931 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
932 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
933 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
935 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
936 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
937 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
938 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
939 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
940 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
941 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
943 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
944 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
945 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
946 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
948 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
949 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
950 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
951 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
952 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
953 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
956 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
957 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
958 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
959 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
962 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
963 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
964 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
965 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
968 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
969 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
972 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
973 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
974 banner-time rejection.
976 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
979 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
980 is the name of a transport.
983 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
985 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
986 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
988 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
989 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
990 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
993 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
994 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
995 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
996 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
998 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
999 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1000 initial verify call returned a defer.
1002 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1003 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1005 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1006 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1008 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1009 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1011 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1012 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1014 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1015 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1018 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1019 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1021 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1022 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1023 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1025 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1026 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1027 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1028 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1030 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1031 and confused the parent.
1033 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1034 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1036 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1039 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1040 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1041 out-of-order delivery.
1043 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1044 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1045 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1048 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1049 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1052 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1053 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1054 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1056 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1057 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1058 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1059 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1060 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1061 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1063 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1064 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1065 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1067 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1068 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1069 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1071 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1072 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1073 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1074 though a different problem.
1080 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1081 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1083 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1085 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1086 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1088 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1089 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1091 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1092 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1093 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1094 before acknowledging the chunk.
1096 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1097 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1098 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1100 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1101 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1102 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1105 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1106 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1107 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1109 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1110 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1112 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1113 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1114 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1115 body hash calculated value.
1117 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1118 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1119 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1121 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1123 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1124 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1126 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1127 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1128 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1130 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1131 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1132 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1133 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1134 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1135 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1137 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1138 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1139 past that check, despite the cost.
1141 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1142 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1143 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1145 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1146 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1147 TLS library to consume.
1149 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1151 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1153 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1154 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1155 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1156 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1157 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1158 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1159 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1161 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1163 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1165 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1166 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1167 should be warning-free.
1169 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1171 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1172 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1174 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1175 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1176 general solution here.
1178 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1179 already-broken messages in the queue.
1181 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1183 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1189 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1190 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1192 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1193 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1194 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1196 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1197 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1198 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1199 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1200 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1201 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1202 if one fails this test.
1203 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1204 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1206 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1207 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1209 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1210 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1212 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1213 in rewrites and routers.
1215 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1216 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1218 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1219 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1221 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1223 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1226 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1227 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1228 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1229 connection after a verify cache hit.
1230 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1232 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1233 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1235 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1236 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1237 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1238 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1239 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1241 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1242 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1244 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1245 Previously they were not counted.
1247 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1248 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1249 that needed the lookup.
1251 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1252 distinguished as "(=".
1254 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1255 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1257 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1259 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1260 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1262 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1263 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1265 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1266 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1269 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1270 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1271 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1272 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1274 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1276 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1277 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1278 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1280 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1281 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1282 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1285 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1286 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1287 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1290 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1291 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1292 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1294 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1295 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1298 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1300 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1301 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1303 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1304 are not in the system include path.
1306 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1307 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1308 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1309 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1311 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1312 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1313 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1315 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1317 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1318 an incoming connection.
1320 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1323 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1324 fallback to "prime256v1".
1326 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1327 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1333 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1334 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1335 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1336 client dropping the TLS connection.
1338 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1339 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1341 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1342 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1343 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1344 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1347 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1348 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1349 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1350 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1351 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1352 check on the next write.
1354 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1355 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1356 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1357 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1358 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1360 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1361 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1363 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1364 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1365 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1367 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1368 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1369 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1370 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1372 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1373 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1375 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1376 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1378 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1379 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1380 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1383 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1385 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1387 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1389 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1390 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1392 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1393 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1395 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1397 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1398 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1400 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1402 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1403 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1405 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1407 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1408 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1409 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1410 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1411 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1412 they will retry in-clear.
1413 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1414 at installation time.
1416 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1417 with the $config_file variable.
1419 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1420 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1421 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1422 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1423 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1425 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1426 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1427 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1428 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1429 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1431 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1433 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1434 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1435 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1436 list order is no longer honoured.
1438 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1439 for DKIM processing.
1441 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1442 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1444 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1445 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1446 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1447 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1449 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1450 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1452 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1453 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1455 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1456 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1458 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1460 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1461 cached by the daemon.
1463 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1464 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1466 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1467 keys are given for lookup.
1469 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1470 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1471 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1472 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1474 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1475 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1476 server-side so match that on older versions.
1478 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1479 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1480 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1482 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1483 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1485 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1486 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1487 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1488 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1489 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1490 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1491 initial truncated version.
1493 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1495 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1497 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1498 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1500 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1502 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1504 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1505 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1508 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1509 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1512 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1513 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1515 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1516 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1519 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1520 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1521 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1523 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1524 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1525 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1526 extraction. Accept either.
1532 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1535 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1537 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1540 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1541 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1542 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1543 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1545 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1546 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1547 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1549 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1550 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1551 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1554 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1557 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1558 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1559 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1560 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1561 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1563 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1564 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1565 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1567 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1569 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1570 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1572 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1573 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1575 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1578 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1579 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1581 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1582 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1583 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1585 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1586 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1587 specify a port-range.
1589 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1590 timeout value per server.
1592 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1593 now have the list separator specified.
1595 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1598 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1601 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1603 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1604 rather than the verbs used.
1606 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1607 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1609 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1611 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1612 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1614 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1615 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1617 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1618 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1620 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1622 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1624 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1625 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1626 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1627 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1629 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1631 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1632 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1634 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1635 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1637 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1639 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1641 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1643 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1644 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1646 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1647 added for tls authenticator.
1649 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1655 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1656 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1657 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1658 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1659 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1660 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1661 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1663 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1664 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1665 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1666 function when detected.
1668 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1669 cause callback expansion.
1671 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1672 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1673 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1674 instead of bool when processing it.
1676 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1677 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1679 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1681 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1683 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1685 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1686 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1688 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1689 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1690 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1691 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1692 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1693 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1695 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1696 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1699 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1700 version 3.3.6 or later.
1702 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1703 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1704 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1705 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1706 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1707 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1710 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1711 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1713 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1714 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1715 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1718 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1719 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1720 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1722 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1723 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1725 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1726 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1729 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1731 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1732 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1734 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1735 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1738 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1740 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1743 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1744 output list separator was used.
1749 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1750 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1753 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1754 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1756 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1758 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1759 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1765 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1767 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1768 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1769 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1770 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1771 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1772 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1774 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1775 utilities have not been installed.
1777 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1778 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1780 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1781 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1783 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1784 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1785 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1786 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1788 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1790 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1791 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1793 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1796 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1798 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1799 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1800 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1802 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1803 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1804 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1805 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1806 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1807 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1809 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1811 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1812 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1814 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1817 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1819 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1821 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1822 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1824 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1825 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1827 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1829 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1831 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1832 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1834 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1835 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1836 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1838 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1839 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1840 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1843 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1845 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1846 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1849 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1850 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1853 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1854 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1856 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1857 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1859 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1861 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1862 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1863 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1865 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1866 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1868 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1869 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1872 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1873 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1874 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1876 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1878 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1879 Christian Aistleitner.
1881 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1883 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1884 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1886 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1887 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1889 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1890 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1892 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1893 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1895 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1896 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1898 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1899 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1900 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1902 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1904 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1905 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1908 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1910 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1911 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1918 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1920 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1921 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1923 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1926 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1927 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1930 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1932 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1933 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1934 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1935 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1936 using channel bindings instead).
1938 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1939 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1940 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1941 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1942 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1945 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1947 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1949 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1950 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1952 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1953 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1954 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1956 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1958 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1960 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1961 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1963 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1965 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1967 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1969 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1970 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1972 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1974 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1975 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1978 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1979 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1981 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1982 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1985 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1987 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1989 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1990 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1992 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1995 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1996 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1998 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1999 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2001 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2003 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2005 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2008 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2011 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2013 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2014 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2015 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2016 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2018 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2020 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2021 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2022 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2023 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2026 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2027 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2028 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2030 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2031 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2032 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2033 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2035 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2036 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2037 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2038 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2039 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2040 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2041 delivery, as in LMTP.
2043 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2044 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2046 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2048 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2052 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2053 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2054 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2055 username as equal to the username.
2057 This change corrects that bug.
2059 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2060 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2061 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2063 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2065 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2066 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2067 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2068 NULL dereference and crash.
2070 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2072 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2073 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2074 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2076 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2078 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2079 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2080 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2081 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2082 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2083 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2084 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2085 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2086 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2087 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2088 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2090 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2091 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2093 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2094 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2097 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2098 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2099 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2100 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2101 an empty string is now equivalent.
2103 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2104 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2105 not performing validation itself.
2107 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2108 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2110 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2113 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2115 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2116 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2117 other false fix of the same issue.
2118 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2121 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2122 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2124 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2125 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2126 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2128 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2129 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2130 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2132 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2134 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2136 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2137 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2139 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2142 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2143 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2144 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2145 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2146 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2148 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2149 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2151 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2152 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2155 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2156 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2157 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2158 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2160 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2162 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2163 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2164 from multiple comments on this bug.
2166 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2168 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2169 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2172 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2173 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2175 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2176 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2182 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2184 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2190 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2191 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2192 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2194 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2196 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2199 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2201 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2203 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2205 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2206 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2208 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2209 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2211 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2212 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2214 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2215 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2216 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2218 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2220 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2221 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2223 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2225 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2227 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2228 non-compliant senders.
2229 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2231 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2232 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2233 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2235 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2236 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2237 in spool file corruption.
2239 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2240 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2241 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2244 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2245 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2246 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2248 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2249 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2251 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2253 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2255 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2257 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2258 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2259 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2261 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2262 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2263 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2264 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2266 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2267 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2269 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2270 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2271 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2272 resolver implementation change.
2274 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2275 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2277 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2279 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2281 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2282 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2284 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2285 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2287 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2288 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2290 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2291 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2292 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2293 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2294 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2296 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2298 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2299 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2300 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2302 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2304 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2305 read-only, out of scope).
2306 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2308 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2309 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2310 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2311 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2313 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2315 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2316 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2317 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2318 real issues in debug logging.
2320 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2321 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2323 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2324 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2325 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2327 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2328 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2329 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2332 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2333 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2335 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2336 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2337 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2338 needs to override this, it can.
2340 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2341 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2342 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2344 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2345 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2346 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2347 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2349 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2355 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2356 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2358 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2360 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2363 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2364 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2366 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2367 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2368 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2370 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2371 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2372 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2373 not safe for signals.
2375 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2376 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2377 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2378 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2381 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2383 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2384 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2385 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2386 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2387 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2389 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2390 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2391 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2392 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2393 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2394 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2396 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2397 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2398 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2399 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2401 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2402 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2403 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2404 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2406 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2407 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2408 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2409 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2410 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2411 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2412 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2413 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2414 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2416 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2417 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2418 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2419 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2421 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2422 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2423 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2424 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2425 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2426 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2427 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2428 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2429 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2430 details in the main documentation.
2432 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2434 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2436 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2437 repository when doing development or release builds.
2439 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2440 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2442 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2443 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2446 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2448 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2449 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2451 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2452 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2454 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2455 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2457 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2458 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2460 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2461 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2463 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2465 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2468 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2469 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2470 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2472 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2474 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2476 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2477 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2483 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2485 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2486 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2488 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2490 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2492 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2495 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2496 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2498 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2499 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2501 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2502 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2504 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2507 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2508 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2510 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2511 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2512 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2513 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2515 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2516 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2522 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2525 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2526 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2527 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2529 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2530 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2532 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2533 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2534 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2536 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2537 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2539 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2540 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2542 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2543 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2545 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2546 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2548 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2549 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2551 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2554 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2555 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2557 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2558 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2560 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2561 SQL string expansion failure details.
2562 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2564 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2565 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2567 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2568 extern declarations in function scope.
2569 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2571 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2572 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2573 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2576 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2577 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2579 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2580 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2582 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2583 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2585 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2586 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2588 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2589 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2592 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2594 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2596 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2597 Patch by Simon Arlott
2599 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2600 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2606 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2607 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2609 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2610 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2612 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2614 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2615 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2616 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2618 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2619 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2620 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2622 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2623 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2624 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2625 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2627 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2628 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2629 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2630 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2632 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2633 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2634 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2637 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2640 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2641 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2642 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2643 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2644 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2650 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2651 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2652 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2654 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2655 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2657 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2659 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2661 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2663 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2665 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2667 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2668 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2669 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2670 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2672 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2673 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2674 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2675 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2676 more caution in buffer sizes.
2678 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2680 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2682 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2684 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2686 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2688 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2690 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2692 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2693 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2694 ignore trailing whitespace.
2696 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2698 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2701 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2702 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2704 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2705 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2706 Notification from John Horne.
2708 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2711 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2712 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2715 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2718 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2719 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2720 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2722 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2723 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2724 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2727 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2728 option (effectively making it always true).
2730 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2731 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2733 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2734 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2736 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2737 run-time user, instead of root.
2739 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2740 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2742 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2743 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2746 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2747 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2748 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2750 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2752 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2758 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2759 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2762 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2763 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2766 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2767 Patch from Alain Williams
2769 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2771 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2772 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2774 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2775 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2777 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2779 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2781 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2782 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2784 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2786 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2788 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2789 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2790 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2792 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2793 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2795 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2796 Patch by Simon Arlott
2798 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2799 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2805 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2807 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2809 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2811 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2813 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2819 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2820 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2822 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2823 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2826 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2827 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2828 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2830 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2831 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2833 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2834 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2835 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2836 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2838 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2839 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2840 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2842 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2844 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2846 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2847 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2849 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2851 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2852 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2853 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2854 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2856 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2857 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2859 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2861 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2863 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2864 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2866 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2867 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2869 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2870 that they are available at delivery time.
2872 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2874 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2875 incoming_port log selectors.
2877 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2878 setting expands to an empty string.
2880 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2881 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2883 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2884 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2886 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2887 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2889 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2890 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2892 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2893 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2895 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2896 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2898 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2900 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2901 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2903 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2904 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2906 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2908 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2909 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2911 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2913 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2915 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2918 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2919 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2921 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2922 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2924 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2925 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2927 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2928 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2930 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2931 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2933 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2934 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2936 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2937 plus update to original patch.
2939 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2941 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2942 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2944 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2946 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2948 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2950 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2952 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2953 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2955 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2956 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2958 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2959 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2961 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2962 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2964 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2966 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2968 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2970 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2976 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2977 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2978 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2980 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2981 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2982 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2983 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2984 build errors in sieve.c.
2986 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2987 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2988 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2990 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2992 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2994 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2996 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3002 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3004 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3005 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3006 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3007 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3008 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3009 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3010 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3011 for iplsearch lookups.
3013 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3014 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3015 previously such lookups could never work.
3017 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3018 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3019 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3021 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3024 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3025 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3026 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3027 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3028 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3029 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3031 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3032 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3034 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3035 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3036 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3037 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3038 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3039 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3041 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3044 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3046 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3047 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3050 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3051 by clients under certain conditions.
3053 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3054 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3056 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3058 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3059 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3061 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3063 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3065 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3067 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3068 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3070 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3072 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3073 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3075 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3077 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3079 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3080 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3081 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3082 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3084 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3085 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3086 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3088 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3089 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3091 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3093 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3095 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3097 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3098 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3099 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3105 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3106 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3109 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3110 issue a MAIL command.
3112 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3114 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3116 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3117 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3118 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3119 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3120 item. This has been fixed.
3122 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3123 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3125 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3126 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3128 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3129 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3130 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3132 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3134 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3135 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3136 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3137 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3138 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3140 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3141 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3142 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3144 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3145 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3146 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3147 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3149 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3151 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3153 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3154 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3155 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3156 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3157 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3159 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3161 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3162 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3163 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3166 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3168 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3170 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3172 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3174 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3176 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3177 no_callout_flush is set.
3179 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3180 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3181 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3184 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3186 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3187 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3188 other ACL rejections are.
3190 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3191 with slight modification.
3193 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3194 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3196 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3197 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3200 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3201 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3203 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3205 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3206 expansion side effects.
3208 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3209 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3210 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3213 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3214 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3215 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3217 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3218 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3219 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3220 were accidentally chopped off.
3222 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3223 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3224 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3225 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3226 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3227 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3228 pipelining has not been advertised.
3230 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3232 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3233 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3234 This has been fixed.
3236 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3237 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3238 reported on Solaris.
3240 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3241 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3242 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3243 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3244 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3245 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3246 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3248 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3251 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3253 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3255 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3256 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3257 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3258 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3259 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3260 criteria to be more general.
3262 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3263 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3264 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3265 host_all_ignored option.
3267 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3268 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3269 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3270 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3271 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3272 is what is supposed to happen).
3274 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3275 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3276 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3277 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3278 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3281 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3282 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3283 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3284 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3285 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3286 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3289 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3291 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3292 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3294 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3295 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3297 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3299 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3301 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3302 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3303 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3304 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3305 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3306 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3307 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3308 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3309 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3310 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3311 least in a lot of common cases.
3313 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3314 advertised in response to EHLO.
3320 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3321 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3323 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3324 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3326 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3327 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3328 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3330 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3331 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3332 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3333 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3334 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3340 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3341 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3344 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3345 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3346 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3348 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3349 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3350 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3351 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3352 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3353 rather than extend the field.
3359 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3360 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3361 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3362 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3365 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3366 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3367 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3369 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3370 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3371 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3373 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3374 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3375 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3378 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3379 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3380 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3381 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3382 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3383 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3384 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3385 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3386 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3387 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3388 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3390 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3393 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3394 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3395 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3396 ignores EPIPE as well.
3398 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3399 (quoted-printable decoding).
3401 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3402 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3404 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3406 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3408 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3410 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3411 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3413 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3416 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3417 miscellaneous code fixes
3419 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3422 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3423 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3424 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3425 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3426 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3427 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3428 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3429 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3431 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3432 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3433 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3434 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3436 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3437 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3438 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3439 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3440 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3441 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3442 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3443 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3444 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3446 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3449 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3450 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3451 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3452 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3453 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3454 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3455 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3456 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3458 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3459 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3462 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3463 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3464 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3465 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3466 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3467 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3468 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3469 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3470 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3471 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3472 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3473 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3474 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3476 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3477 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3478 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3479 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3480 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3481 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3482 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3484 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3485 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3486 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3487 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3488 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3489 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3490 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3491 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3492 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3493 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3495 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3496 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3497 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3498 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3499 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3501 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3502 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3503 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3504 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3505 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3506 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3507 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3509 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3510 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3511 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3512 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3513 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3514 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3517 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3518 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3519 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3522 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3523 if any retry times were supplied.
3525 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3526 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3527 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3529 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3531 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3533 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3534 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3535 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3536 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3537 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3538 before) are ignored.
3540 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3541 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3543 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3544 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3545 committing the later change.]
3547 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3548 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3549 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3550 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3551 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3552 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3553 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3554 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3555 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3557 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3558 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3559 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3560 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3561 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3562 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3563 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3564 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3565 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3567 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3568 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3569 hammering the server.
3571 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3572 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3574 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3576 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3577 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3578 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3580 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3581 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3582 one case where this was not true.
3584 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3585 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3586 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3587 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3590 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3591 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3592 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3593 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3594 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3595 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3596 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3597 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3598 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3601 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3602 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3603 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3604 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3606 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3607 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3609 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3610 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3611 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3613 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3615 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3617 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3619 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3620 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3621 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3622 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3624 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3625 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3627 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3628 be meaningful with "accept".
3630 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3631 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3633 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3634 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3635 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3637 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3638 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3639 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3640 there is data to show.
3641 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3643 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3644 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3645 as well as the number of messages.
3647 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3648 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3649 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3651 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3652 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3653 have a flag are now skipped.
3655 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3656 Added the -emptyok flag.
3658 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3659 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3661 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3662 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3663 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3665 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3668 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3669 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3671 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3673 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3674 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3676 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3678 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3679 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3680 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3681 contravention of the specifications.
3683 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3684 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3685 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3687 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3688 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3689 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3691 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3693 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3694 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3695 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3696 some point in the past.
3698 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3699 transport during callout processing was broken.
3701 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3702 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3704 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3705 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3707 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3708 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3710 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3716 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3717 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3719 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3720 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3721 there is data to show.
3722 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3724 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3725 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3727 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3728 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3730 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3731 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3733 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3734 submissions from trusted users.
3736 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3737 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3739 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3740 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3741 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3742 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3743 there is now a framework to start from.
3745 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3746 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3747 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3749 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3751 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3753 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3755 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3756 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3757 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3759 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3762 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3763 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3764 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3766 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3767 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3768 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3771 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3772 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3773 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3774 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3775 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3777 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3778 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3780 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3782 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3783 operations in malware.c.
3785 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3788 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3789 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3790 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3793 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3794 statements to "add_header".
3796 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3797 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3799 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3800 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3803 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3807 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3808 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3809 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3812 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3813 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3815 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3816 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3818 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3819 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3820 any possible encoding problems.
3822 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3823 but not after initializing Perl.
3825 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3826 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3827 apparently, which is not desirable.
3829 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3832 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3835 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3837 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3838 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3839 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3840 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3842 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3843 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3844 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3846 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3847 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3848 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3851 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3852 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3853 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3854 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3855 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3861 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3862 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3864 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3867 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3868 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3869 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3870 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3871 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3872 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3873 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3874 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3877 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3879 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3880 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3881 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3883 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3884 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3885 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3888 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3889 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3891 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3892 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3893 option (which defaults to 0600).
3895 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3897 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3898 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3899 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3900 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3901 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3902 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3903 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3905 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3911 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3912 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3913 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3914 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3915 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3916 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3919 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3920 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3922 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3924 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3925 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3926 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3927 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3928 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3931 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3932 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3934 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3935 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3936 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3937 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3938 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3940 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3941 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3942 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3943 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3945 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3946 be the same on different OS.
3948 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3951 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3952 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3954 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3957 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3958 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3959 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3960 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3961 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3962 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3965 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3966 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3967 when Exim was called.
3969 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3970 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3972 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3973 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3974 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3975 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3977 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3978 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3979 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3980 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3983 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3984 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3985 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3987 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3988 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3989 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3991 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3994 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3995 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3996 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3997 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3998 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3999 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4000 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4001 values from the SRV records were lost.
4003 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4004 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4005 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4007 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4008 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4009 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4011 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4012 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4013 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4014 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4015 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4016 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4017 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4018 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4019 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4020 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4022 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4023 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4024 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4026 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4027 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4029 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4030 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4031 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4032 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4035 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4036 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4037 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4039 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4040 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4041 PH/23 above applies.
4043 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4044 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4045 (for which there is an explicit test).
4047 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4049 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4050 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4051 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4052 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4053 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4055 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4056 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4057 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4058 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4060 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4061 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4062 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4064 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4066 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4068 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4069 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4070 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4072 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4073 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4074 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4075 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4076 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4078 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4079 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4080 the message gets confusing).
4082 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4083 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4084 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4085 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4087 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4088 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4089 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4090 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4093 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4094 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4095 the different processes.
4097 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4099 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4101 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4102 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4104 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4105 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4107 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4108 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4109 messages matching specified criteria.
4111 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4113 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4114 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4116 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4117 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4118 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4119 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4120 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4121 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4122 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4123 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4124 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4125 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4127 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4128 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4129 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4131 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4133 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4134 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4135 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4136 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4137 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4138 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4139 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4142 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4143 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4145 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4147 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4149 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4151 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4152 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4153 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4154 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4155 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4156 size of the count of files.
4158 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4160 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4163 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4164 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4165 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4166 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4168 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4169 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4170 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4172 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4173 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4174 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4175 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4176 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4178 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4179 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4181 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4182 will now be deprecated.
4184 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4186 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4187 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4188 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4190 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4191 with very large, slow to parse queues
4193 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4195 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4197 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4198 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4199 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4202 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4203 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4204 Sieve code now uses this.
4206 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4207 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4209 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4210 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4212 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4214 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4215 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4216 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4217 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4218 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4220 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4221 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4222 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4223 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4225 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4227 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4229 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4230 is preferred over IPv4.
4232 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4233 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4234 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4235 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4236 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4237 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4238 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4240 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4241 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4242 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4244 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4246 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4247 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4248 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4249 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4250 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4251 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4252 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4253 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4254 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4255 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4256 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4258 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4259 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4260 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4266 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4268 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4269 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4271 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4272 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4273 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4275 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4277 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4280 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4283 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4284 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4285 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4288 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4289 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4291 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4292 inside the third argument.
4294 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4295 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4298 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4299 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4301 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4302 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4304 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4306 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4307 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4310 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4312 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4313 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4314 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4315 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4316 identical. For example:
4318 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4320 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4321 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4322 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4324 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4325 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4326 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4327 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4329 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4330 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4331 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4334 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4336 o fixes some comments
4337 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4338 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4339 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4340 and documents the missing references header update
4344 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4345 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4348 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4349 Electronic Mail") by including:
4351 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4353 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4354 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4355 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4356 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4357 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4359 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4361 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4363 The auto-replied keyword:
4365 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4366 message by an automatic process,
4368 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4370 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4371 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4373 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4374 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4377 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4378 to the default Received: header definition.
4380 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4382 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4383 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4384 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4386 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4387 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4388 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4390 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4391 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4392 and treats the condition as false.
4394 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4396 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4397 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4398 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4399 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4400 not changing the active code.
4402 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4403 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4405 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4406 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4408 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4411 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4412 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4413 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4414 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4415 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4416 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4417 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4418 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4419 the text comparison.
4421 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4422 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4423 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4424 The same fix has been applied.
4430 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4431 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4434 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4435 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4437 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4439 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4440 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4441 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4442 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4443 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4445 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4446 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4447 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4448 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4451 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4459 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4460 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4462 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4464 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4466 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4467 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4468 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4470 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4471 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4472 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4474 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4475 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4478 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4479 ${stat: expansion item.
4481 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4482 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4484 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4485 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4488 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4490 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4493 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4494 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4496 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4498 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4499 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4500 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4501 the end of the subprocess.
4503 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4504 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4505 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4506 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4507 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4509 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4511 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4513 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4514 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4516 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4518 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4520 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4521 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4524 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4526 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4527 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4528 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4530 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4531 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4533 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4534 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4536 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4537 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4539 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4540 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4542 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4543 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4544 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4545 contributed by a Radius user.
4547 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4548 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4550 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4551 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4553 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4556 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4557 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4560 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4561 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4562 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4563 header lines when this was not necessary.
4565 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4567 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4568 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4569 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4572 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4575 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4576 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4577 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4578 return code was incorrect.
4580 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4582 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4584 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4586 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4588 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4589 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4590 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4591 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4592 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4595 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4597 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4598 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4599 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4600 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4601 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4602 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4603 which is clearly wrong.
4605 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4607 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4608 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4609 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4612 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4613 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4615 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4617 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4618 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4620 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4621 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4623 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4624 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4626 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4627 recipients, not senders.
4629 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4630 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4632 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4634 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4636 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4637 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4638 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4639 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4641 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4643 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4644 clock is set back in time.
4646 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4647 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4649 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4650 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4652 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4653 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4656 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4657 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4660 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4663 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4665 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4666 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4667 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4669 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4670 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4671 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4672 helo verification defer as a failure.
4674 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4675 actual error message.
4681 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4683 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4684 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4685 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4686 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4688 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4690 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4691 can still be requested.
4693 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4694 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4695 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4696 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4698 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4699 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4700 circumstances, but probably never did.
4702 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4703 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4704 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4707 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4709 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4710 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4712 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4714 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4716 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4717 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4718 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4719 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4720 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4721 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4723 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4724 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4725 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4726 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4727 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4728 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4730 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4731 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4733 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4734 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4736 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4737 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4739 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4741 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4743 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4745 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4747 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4749 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4751 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4753 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4754 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4755 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4757 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4758 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4759 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4760 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4762 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4763 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4764 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4766 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4767 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4768 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4769 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4771 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4772 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4775 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4776 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4777 should work with maildirs and everything.
4779 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4780 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4782 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4785 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4786 function for BDB 4.3.
4788 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4790 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4791 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4794 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4795 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4796 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4797 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4798 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4799 formatting function string_vformat().
4801 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4802 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4803 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4804 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4805 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4806 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4807 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4808 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4810 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4811 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4814 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4815 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4817 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4818 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4819 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4820 test. It is now used for both.
4822 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4823 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4824 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4825 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4826 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4827 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4829 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4830 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4831 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4834 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4835 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4836 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4838 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4839 experimental DomainKeys support:
4841 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4842 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4843 the control was given.
4845 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4847 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4849 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4851 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4852 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4853 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4856 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4857 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4858 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4859 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4860 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4861 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4864 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4865 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4866 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4867 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4868 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4869 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4871 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4872 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4873 do -d+all out of habit.
4875 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4876 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4879 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4880 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4881 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4882 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4883 record types that Exim uses.
4885 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4886 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4887 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4888 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4889 non-existent file that was broken.
4891 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4892 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4894 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4895 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4896 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4898 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4900 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4901 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4902 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4903 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4904 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4907 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4908 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4909 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4910 at a slight CPU cost.
4912 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4913 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4915 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4918 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4920 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4921 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4927 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4928 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4930 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4932 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4934 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4935 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4937 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4938 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4939 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4940 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4941 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4942 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4945 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4946 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4947 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4948 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4951 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4952 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4953 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4954 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4955 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4956 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4957 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4960 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4961 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4963 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4964 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4965 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4966 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4967 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4968 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4970 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4971 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4972 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4973 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4975 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4978 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4979 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4981 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4982 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4983 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4984 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4987 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4989 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4990 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4992 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4993 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4994 to what was transported.)
4996 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4998 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4999 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5000 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5001 spamd_address settings.
5003 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5004 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5005 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5006 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5007 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5009 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5011 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5012 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5013 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5014 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5015 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5017 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5018 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5020 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5021 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5022 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5023 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5024 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5025 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5026 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5029 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5030 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5031 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5032 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5033 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5034 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5035 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5038 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5040 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5041 driver and ACL definitions.
5043 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5044 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5046 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5047 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5048 understands it better than I do:
5050 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5051 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5053 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5054 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5055 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5056 => three warnings about OTP not working
5057 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5059 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5060 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5061 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5062 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5064 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5065 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5067 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5068 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5069 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5071 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5072 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5075 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5076 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5079 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5080 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5081 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5083 warn !verify = sender
5084 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5086 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5087 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5089 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5091 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5092 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5094 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5095 nomenclature these days.)
5097 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5098 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5100 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5101 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5102 . First host does not offer TLS;
5103 . First host accepts first address;
5104 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5105 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5106 . Second host accepts second address.
5107 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5108 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5111 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5112 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5113 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5114 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5115 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5117 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5118 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5120 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5121 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5123 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5124 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5125 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5127 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5128 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5131 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5133 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5134 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5135 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5136 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5137 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5138 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5139 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5141 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5142 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5143 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5144 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5145 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5147 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5148 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5151 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5152 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5153 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5154 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5155 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5156 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5158 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5160 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5161 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5162 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5163 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5164 printable escape sequences.
5166 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5167 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5170 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5171 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5174 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5175 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5176 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5177 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5178 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5180 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5181 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5182 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5184 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5186 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5187 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5190 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5191 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5192 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5193 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5194 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5195 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5196 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5197 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5198 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5201 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5202 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5203 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5204 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5208 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5209 ----------------------------------------
5211 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5212 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5213 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5214 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5215 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5216 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5219 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5220 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5221 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5222 historical information.
5228 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5230 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5231 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5233 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5234 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5237 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5238 filter fails to execute.
5240 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5241 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5242 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5243 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5244 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5246 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5248 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5249 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5250 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5251 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5253 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5254 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5255 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5256 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5257 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5259 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5261 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5263 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5264 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5265 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5266 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5268 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5269 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5270 sender verification.
5272 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5273 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5275 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5277 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5280 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5281 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5283 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5284 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5286 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5287 information about exactly what failed.
5289 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5291 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5292 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5293 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5295 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5296 It is now set to "smtps".
5298 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5299 ignore_target_hosts.
5301 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5302 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5303 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5304 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5307 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5308 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5309 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5311 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5312 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5313 wake it up if nothing else does.
5315 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5316 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5317 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5320 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5321 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5323 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5325 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5326 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5327 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5328 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5329 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5330 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5331 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5332 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5334 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5335 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5336 than one IP address.
5338 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5339 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5340 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5341 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5343 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5344 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5345 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5346 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5347 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5350 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5351 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5352 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5353 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5355 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5356 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5359 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5360 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5361 $sender_host_address.
5363 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5364 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5365 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5366 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5367 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5370 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5372 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5373 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5375 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5376 just the host names, not the priorities.
5378 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5379 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5380 controlled by a keyword.
5382 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5383 multiple records are returned.
5385 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5386 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5389 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5391 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5392 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5394 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5395 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5396 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5398 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5400 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5402 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5404 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5405 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5406 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5407 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5408 because the tests only now provoked it.
5410 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5411 (this can affect the format of dates).
5413 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5414 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5415 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5416 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5418 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5420 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5421 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5422 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5423 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5425 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5426 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5427 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5429 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5432 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5433 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5434 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5435 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5436 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5437 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5440 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5441 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5442 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5445 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5446 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5447 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5449 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5450 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5451 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5452 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5453 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5454 so I produce this patch..."
5456 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5457 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5460 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5461 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5462 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5463 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5466 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5468 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5469 long debug lines gets shown.
5471 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5472 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5474 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5476 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5477 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5478 of $primary_hostname.
5480 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5481 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5482 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5483 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5484 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5485 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5486 by change 4.50/55 above.
5488 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5489 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5490 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5491 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5492 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5493 running as the user.
5496 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5497 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5498 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5501 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5502 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5504 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5505 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5506 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5507 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5508 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5510 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5511 This has been fixed.
5513 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5514 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5515 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5516 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5519 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5521 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5522 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5523 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5524 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5526 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5527 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5529 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5530 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5531 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5533 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5534 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5535 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5538 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5539 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5540 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5542 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5543 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5544 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5545 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5547 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5548 during host lookups.
5550 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5551 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5553 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5555 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5556 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5557 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5558 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5559 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5562 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5563 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5565 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5566 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5567 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5569 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5571 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5572 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5573 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5574 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5575 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5576 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5579 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5580 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5581 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5582 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5583 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5585 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5588 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5590 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5591 "vacation" handling.
5593 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5594 OS variants using glibc.
5596 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5599 ----------------------------------------------------
5600 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5601 ----------------------------------------------------
5607 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5608 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5611 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5612 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5615 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5616 filter fails to execute.
5618 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5619 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5620 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5621 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5622 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5624 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5625 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5626 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5627 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5629 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5630 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5631 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5632 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5633 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5635 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5637 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5638 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5639 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5640 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5642 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5643 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5644 sender verification.
5646 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5647 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5649 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5650 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5652 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5653 ignore_target_hosts.
5655 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5656 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5657 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5658 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5661 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5662 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5663 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5665 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5666 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5667 wake it up if nothing else does.
5669 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5670 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5671 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5674 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5675 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5677 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5679 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5680 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5683 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5684 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5687 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5688 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5689 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5690 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5691 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5694 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5695 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5698 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5699 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5700 $sender_host_address.
5702 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5704 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5705 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5706 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5708 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5711 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5712 (this can affect the format of dates).
5714 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5715 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5716 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5717 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5719 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5720 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5721 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5723 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5724 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5725 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5726 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5728 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5729 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5730 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5732 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5735 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5736 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5737 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5738 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5739 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5740 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5743 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5744 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5745 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5746 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5749 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5750 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5751 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5752 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5753 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5754 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5755 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5757 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5758 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5759 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5760 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5761 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5762 running as the user.
5765 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5766 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5767 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5770 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5771 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5772 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5773 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5774 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5776 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5777 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5778 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5779 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5782 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5783 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5784 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5785 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5786 because the tests only now provoked it.
5792 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5793 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5794 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5795 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5796 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5797 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5798 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5800 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5801 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5804 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5806 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5808 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5809 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5812 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5813 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5814 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5815 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5816 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5818 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5819 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5821 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5823 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5825 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5828 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5829 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5831 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5832 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5833 affecting debugging statements).
5835 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5837 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5838 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5839 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5840 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5841 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5842 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5843 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5844 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5845 after the received time, and all would be well.
5847 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5848 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5849 condition in an expansion string.
5851 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5853 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5854 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5855 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5856 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5857 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5858 job under whatever limits there are.
5860 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5862 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5865 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5866 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5867 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5868 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5871 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5872 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5873 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5874 binary data in such strings.
5876 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5878 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5879 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5880 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5881 failure, which is pointless.
5883 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5885 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5887 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5888 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5889 Sender: header lines.
5891 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5892 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5893 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5895 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5896 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5897 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5898 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5899 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5902 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5903 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5904 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5905 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5906 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5908 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5909 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5910 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5913 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5914 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5916 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5917 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5919 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5921 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5923 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5925 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5928 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5930 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5932 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5933 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5934 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5935 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5937 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5938 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5944 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5945 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5946 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5948 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5949 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5950 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5951 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5952 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5953 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5955 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5956 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5957 verification failure".
5959 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5960 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5961 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5962 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5964 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5965 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5966 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5967 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5968 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5969 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5970 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5971 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5972 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5973 treated as a timeout.
5975 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5976 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5977 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5978 not set for Exim filters).
5980 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5981 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5982 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5984 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5986 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5987 try to make them clearer.
5989 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5990 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5992 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5994 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5996 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5997 only the Cygwin environment.
5999 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6000 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6001 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6002 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6003 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6005 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6006 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6007 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6008 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6009 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6010 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6011 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6013 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6014 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6016 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6018 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6019 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6020 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6022 To: susanne@some.where
6024 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6025 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6026 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6027 of addresses in From: header lines).
6029 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6030 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6031 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6033 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6034 treated as non-personal.
6036 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6037 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6039 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6041 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6043 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6044 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6045 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6047 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6048 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6050 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6051 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6052 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6053 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6054 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6055 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6057 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6058 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6059 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6060 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6061 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6062 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6063 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6064 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6066 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6068 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6069 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6071 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6072 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6073 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6075 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6076 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6078 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6079 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6080 rather than long int.
6082 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6084 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6090 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6091 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6092 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6093 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6094 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6095 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6101 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6102 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6104 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6105 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6106 socklen_t is defined.
6108 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6111 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6114 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6115 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6116 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6117 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6118 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6120 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6121 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6122 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6123 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6125 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6126 of flapping under certain conditions.
6128 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6129 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6130 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6132 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6134 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6136 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6137 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6138 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6139 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6141 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6142 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6143 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6144 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6145 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6146 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6147 preserved with the message after it was received.
6149 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6150 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6151 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6152 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6153 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6154 test suite worked just fine.
6156 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6157 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6158 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6160 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6161 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6164 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6165 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6166 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6167 does not fully solve it.
6169 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6170 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6171 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6172 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6173 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6175 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6176 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6177 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6179 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6180 string, for example:
6182 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6184 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6185 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6186 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6187 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6188 the routers could not see them.
6190 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6191 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6193 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6194 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6197 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6198 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6199 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6200 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6201 that needed quoting.
6203 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6204 was not being matched caselessly.
6206 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6209 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6210 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6211 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6212 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6213 when use_sender is false.
6215 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6217 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6219 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6221 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6222 the configuration file.
6224 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6225 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6227 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6229 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6230 bytes in the message body.
6232 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6233 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6236 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6238 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6240 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6241 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6242 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6243 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6250 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6251 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6253 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6254 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6255 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6256 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6257 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6259 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6260 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6262 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6263 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6264 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6266 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6267 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6268 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6270 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6273 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6274 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6275 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6276 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6277 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6278 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6279 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6285 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6286 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6287 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6288 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6289 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6290 default (and expected) setting.
6292 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6293 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6294 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6295 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6297 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6298 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6300 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6303 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6304 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6305 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6306 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6307 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6308 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6310 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6311 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6312 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6314 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6315 part (NOT match_host).
6317 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6319 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6320 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6321 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6322 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6323 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6324 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6325 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6326 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6327 the same named file.
6329 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6330 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6333 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6334 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6335 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6336 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6339 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6340 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6341 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6343 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6345 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6347 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6349 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6350 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6352 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6353 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6354 before starting the TLS session.
6356 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6358 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6359 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6361 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6362 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6363 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6364 colon in the middle).
6370 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6371 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6372 multiple configurations are in use.
6374 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6375 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6376 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6377 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6378 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6379 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6381 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6382 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6384 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6385 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6386 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6388 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6389 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6392 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6393 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6395 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6397 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6398 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6400 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6408 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6409 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6410 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6411 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6412 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6414 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6417 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6418 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6419 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6420 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6421 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6422 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6424 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6425 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6426 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6427 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6428 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6429 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6430 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6433 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6434 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6435 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6436 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6437 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6439 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6441 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6442 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6443 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6445 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6447 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6448 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6449 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6452 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6453 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6455 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6456 Three changes have been made:
6458 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6459 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6460 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6461 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6462 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6464 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6467 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6468 the modified behaviour.
6474 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6477 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6478 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6480 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6481 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6482 try to track down a specific problem.
6484 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6485 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6486 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6488 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6491 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6492 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6493 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6494 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6495 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6496 some earlier ones do not.
6498 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6500 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6501 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6502 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6503 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6504 address literals are enabled, of course).
6506 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6508 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6509 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6510 by a command such as
6514 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6516 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6518 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6519 remained set. It is now erased.
6521 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6522 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6524 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6525 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6526 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6527 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6528 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6529 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6530 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6531 appropriate error code.
6533 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6534 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6535 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6536 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6537 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6538 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6540 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6541 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6542 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6544 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6545 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6546 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6547 terminate the header.
6549 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6550 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6551 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6553 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6554 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6555 (4.30/29). In particular:
6557 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6560 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6561 to write a maildirsize file.
6563 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6564 the transport, the new value overrides.
6566 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6569 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6570 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6571 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6574 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6575 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6576 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6579 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6580 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6581 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6583 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6584 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6587 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6588 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6589 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6591 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6593 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6595 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6597 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6598 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6601 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6602 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6603 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6604 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6605 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6606 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6607 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6610 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6611 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6612 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6613 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6614 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6617 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6618 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6619 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6620 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6621 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6622 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6623 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6624 cached value only when the same options are set.
6626 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6628 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6629 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6630 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6631 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6632 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6634 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6635 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6636 it is clearly obsolete.
6638 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6641 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6642 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6643 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6646 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6647 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6648 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6649 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6650 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6652 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6653 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6654 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6655 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6657 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6659 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6661 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6662 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6665 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6666 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6667 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6668 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6669 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6670 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6673 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6674 with the -f command-line option.
6676 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6677 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6678 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6679 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6680 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6681 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6683 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6684 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6687 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6688 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6689 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6690 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6691 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6692 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6693 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6694 buffer is too small.
6696 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6697 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6699 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6700 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6701 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6702 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6703 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6704 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6705 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6706 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6707 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6709 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6710 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6711 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6713 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6714 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6717 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6718 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6719 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6720 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6721 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6723 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6724 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6725 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6726 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6729 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6731 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6733 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6734 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6736 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6737 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6738 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6740 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6741 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6742 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6743 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6744 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6746 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6747 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6748 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6749 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6750 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6751 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6752 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6754 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6755 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6756 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6757 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6758 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6759 the test of how many are available.
6761 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6762 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6763 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6764 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6765 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6766 new message is started.
6768 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6769 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6771 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6772 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6774 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6775 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6776 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6779 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6780 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6781 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6782 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6783 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6784 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6785 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6787 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6788 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6789 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6790 interpreted as octal.
6792 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6795 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6796 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6797 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6798 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6799 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6800 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6802 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6803 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6804 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6805 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6807 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6808 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6809 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6810 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6812 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6813 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6816 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6817 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6819 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6821 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6822 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6823 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6824 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6826 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6827 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6828 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6829 supplied", which is not helpful.
6831 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6832 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6833 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6835 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6836 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6837 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6838 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6839 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6840 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6841 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6842 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6844 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6845 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6846 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6847 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6848 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6850 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6851 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6852 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6853 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6854 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6855 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6857 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6858 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6859 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6861 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6863 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6864 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6865 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6868 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6870 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6871 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6872 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6873 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6874 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6875 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6876 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6877 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6879 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6880 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6881 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6882 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6883 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6885 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6888 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6889 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6890 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6891 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6892 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6893 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6894 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6895 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6896 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6902 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6903 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6904 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6906 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6909 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6910 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6911 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6913 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6914 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6915 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6916 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6917 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6918 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6920 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6921 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6922 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6923 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6924 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6925 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6926 the Exim test suite.
6928 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6929 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6930 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6931 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6933 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6934 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6935 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6936 specify it in this variable.
6938 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6939 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6940 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6941 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6943 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6944 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6945 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6946 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6948 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6949 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6950 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6951 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6952 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6954 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6956 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6959 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6960 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6961 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6962 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6963 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6965 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6966 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6968 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6969 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6970 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6971 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6972 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6974 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6975 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6977 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6978 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6979 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6981 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6982 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6984 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6985 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6987 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6988 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6989 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6991 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6992 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6994 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6995 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6996 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6997 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6999 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7001 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7002 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7003 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7004 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7006 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7008 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7009 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7011 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7013 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7014 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7015 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7016 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7017 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7018 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7020 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7022 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7023 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7026 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7028 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7029 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7031 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7032 550 Sender verify failed
7034 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7035 the final line of the response.
7037 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7038 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7039 all other user lookups.
7041 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7044 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7045 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7046 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7047 result into an int without checking.
7049 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7050 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7051 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7053 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7054 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7055 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7056 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7058 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7061 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7062 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7064 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7065 to the empty sender.
7067 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7068 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7069 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7070 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7071 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7072 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7073 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7076 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7077 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7078 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7079 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7082 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7083 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7085 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7088 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7089 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7091 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7093 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7094 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7097 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7098 as soon as it is encountered.
7100 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7102 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7105 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7106 recognizes a tab character.
7108 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7109 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7110 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7111 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7113 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7115 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7118 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7120 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7122 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7123 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7126 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7127 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7128 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7129 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7130 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7132 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7133 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7135 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7136 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7137 list (.included file names were always shown).
7139 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7140 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7141 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7144 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7145 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7147 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7149 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7151 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7153 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7154 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7155 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7156 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7157 failures to open the logs.
7159 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7160 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7161 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7162 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7163 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7164 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7165 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7171 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7172 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7173 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7176 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7177 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7178 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7180 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7181 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7182 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7184 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7185 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7186 causing some misleading effects.
7188 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7189 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7190 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7192 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7193 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7194 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7195 queue-runner function directly.
7201 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7204 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7205 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7206 was always written to the default place.
7208 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7209 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7210 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7212 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7214 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7216 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7217 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7218 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7220 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7221 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7224 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7225 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7226 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7228 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7229 command line option is disabled.
7231 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7232 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7234 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7236 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7238 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7239 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7241 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7243 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7244 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7245 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7246 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7247 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7248 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7250 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7251 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7254 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7255 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7257 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7258 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7260 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7261 received was valid base64.
7263 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7264 name of the variable that was being set.
7266 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7268 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7269 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7270 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7271 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7272 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7273 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7275 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7277 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7278 nor realm was specified.
7280 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7281 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7282 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7283 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7285 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7286 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7287 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7289 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7290 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7291 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7293 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7294 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7295 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7296 some systems use these upper case variants.
7298 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7299 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7300 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7301 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7303 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7305 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7306 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7308 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7309 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7312 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7314 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7315 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7316 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7317 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7319 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7322 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7323 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7324 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7326 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7327 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7329 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7330 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7331 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7332 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7334 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7335 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7336 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7338 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7340 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7341 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7342 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7343 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7346 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7347 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7348 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7350 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7352 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7353 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7355 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7356 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7358 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7359 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7360 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7361 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7362 when emails are that large.
7369 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7370 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7372 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7373 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7374 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7376 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7377 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7378 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7380 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7381 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7382 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7383 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7384 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7386 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7387 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7388 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7389 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7390 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7393 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7394 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7395 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7396 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7397 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7398 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7399 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7400 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7401 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7402 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7403 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7404 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7405 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7406 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7408 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7409 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7412 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7413 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7414 error should be diagnosed.
7416 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7417 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7418 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7419 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7420 appeared instead of "NULL".
7422 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7423 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7424 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7425 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7426 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7427 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7430 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7431 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7432 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7438 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7439 or receiver verification errors.
7441 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7444 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7445 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7446 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7447 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7449 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7450 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7451 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7452 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7453 shouldn't happen again.
7455 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7456 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7457 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7459 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7460 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7462 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7464 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7465 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7467 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7468 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7471 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7472 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7473 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7475 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7476 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7477 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7478 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7480 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7481 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7482 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7483 to define what should happen).
7485 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7486 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7487 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7489 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7491 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7493 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7494 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7496 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7497 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7498 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7499 structure in all cases.
7501 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7502 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7503 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7504 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7506 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7507 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7510 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7511 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7513 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7514 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7516 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7517 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7518 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7520 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7521 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7522 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7524 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7525 the book and for uniformity.
7527 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7529 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7530 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7531 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7532 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7533 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7534 non-existent command as the problem.
7536 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7537 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7538 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7540 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7542 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7543 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7544 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7546 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7547 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7548 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7549 timestamps using strftime().
7551 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7552 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7554 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7555 transport-time rewrites.
7557 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7558 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7559 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7560 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7562 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7563 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7565 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7566 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7567 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7568 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7571 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7572 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7573 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7574 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7575 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7576 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7577 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7579 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7580 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7581 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7582 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7583 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7585 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7586 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7587 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7588 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7589 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7590 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7591 remaining text gets split now.
7593 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7594 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7595 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7596 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7598 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7599 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7600 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7601 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7604 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7605 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7606 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7607 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7608 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7609 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7610 passed through if needed.
7612 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7613 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7614 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7615 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7616 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7617 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7619 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7620 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7621 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7622 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7623 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7625 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7626 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7627 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7628 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7629 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7631 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7632 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7635 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7636 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7637 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7638 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7639 mayhem of various kinds.
7641 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7642 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7643 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7644 the right test for positive values.
7646 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7647 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7648 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7649 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7650 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7651 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7652 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7653 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7654 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7655 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7658 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7661 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7662 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7665 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7666 the existing equality matching.
7668 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7669 dealing with inode numbers.
7671 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7672 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7673 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7675 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7676 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7677 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7678 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7681 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7682 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7683 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7684 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7685 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7686 relay addresses has also been removed.
7688 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7690 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7691 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7692 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7694 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7695 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7696 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7697 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7698 processing applies to CR:
7700 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7701 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7703 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7704 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7705 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7706 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7708 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7709 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7710 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7712 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7713 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7714 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7715 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7716 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7717 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7720 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7723 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7724 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7725 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7726 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7729 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7731 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7733 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7735 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7736 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7737 not considered personal.
7739 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7741 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7743 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7745 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7746 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7747 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7748 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7749 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7750 header lines, and spool format errors.
7752 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7753 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7754 for more flexibility.
7756 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7757 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7758 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7760 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7763 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7764 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7765 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7766 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7767 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7768 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7769 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7770 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7771 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7773 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7774 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7775 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7776 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7777 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7778 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7779 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7781 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7782 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7783 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7785 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7786 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7787 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7788 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7789 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7790 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7791 instead of killing the process with assert().
7793 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7794 than Unicode encoding.
7796 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7797 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7798 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7799 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7801 77. Added process_log_path.
7803 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7804 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7806 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7807 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7809 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7810 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7811 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7813 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7814 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7815 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7816 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7817 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7820 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7821 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7824 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7825 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7826 they will be used during message reception.
7832 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.