1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 Exim version 4.89+fixes
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10 Cherry-Picked from the master development branch
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17 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
18 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
20 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
22 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
23 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
25 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
26 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
28 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
29 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
30 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
31 before acknowledging the chunk.
33 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
34 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
35 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
37 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
38 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
39 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
42 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
43 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
44 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
46 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
47 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
49 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
50 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
51 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
52 body hash calculated value.
54 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
55 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
56 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
58 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
60 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
61 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
63 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
64 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
65 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
67 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
68 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
69 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
70 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
71 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
72 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
74 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
75 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
76 past that check, despite the cost.
78 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
79 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
80 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
82 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
83 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
84 TLS library to consume.
86 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
88 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
90 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
91 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
92 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
93 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
94 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
95 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
96 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
98 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
100 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
102 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
103 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
104 should be warning-free.
106 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
108 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
109 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
111 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
112 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
113 general solution here.
115 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
116 already-broken messages in the queue.
118 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
120 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
126 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
127 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
129 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
130 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
131 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
133 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
134 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
135 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
136 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
137 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
138 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
139 if one fails this test.
140 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
141 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
143 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
144 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
146 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
147 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
149 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
150 in rewrites and routers.
152 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
153 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
155 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
156 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
158 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
160 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
163 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
164 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
165 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
166 connection after a verify cache hit.
167 Do not update it with the verify result either.
169 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
170 when routing results in more than one destination address.
172 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
173 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
174 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
175 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
176 when the cutthrough connection is made).
178 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
179 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
181 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
182 Previously they were not counted.
184 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
185 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
186 that needed the lookup.
188 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
189 distinguished as "(=".
191 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
192 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
194 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
196 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
197 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
199 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
200 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
202 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
203 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
206 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
207 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
208 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
209 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
211 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
213 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
214 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
215 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
217 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
218 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
219 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
222 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
223 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
224 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
227 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
228 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
229 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
231 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
232 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
235 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
237 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
238 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
240 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
241 are not in the system include path.
243 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
244 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
245 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
246 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
248 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
249 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
250 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
252 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
254 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
255 an incoming connection.
257 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
260 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
261 fallback to "prime256v1".
263 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
264 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
270 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
271 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
272 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
273 client dropping the TLS connection.
275 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
276 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
278 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
279 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
280 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
281 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
284 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
285 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
286 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
287 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
288 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
289 check on the next write.
291 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
292 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
293 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
294 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
295 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
297 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
298 mime_regex ACL conditions.
300 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
301 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
302 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
304 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
305 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
306 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
307 an authenticate fail is not an error.
309 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
310 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
312 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
313 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
315 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
316 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
317 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
320 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
322 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
324 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
326 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
327 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
329 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
330 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
332 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
334 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
335 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
337 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
339 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
340 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
342 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
344 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
345 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
346 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
347 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
348 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
349 they will retry in-clear.
350 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
351 at installation time.
353 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
354 with the $config_file variable.
356 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
357 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
358 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
359 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
360 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
362 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
363 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
364 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
365 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
366 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
368 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
370 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
371 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
372 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
373 list order is no longer honoured.
375 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
378 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
379 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
381 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
382 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
383 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
384 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
386 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
387 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
389 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
390 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
392 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
393 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
395 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
397 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
398 cached by the daemon.
400 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
401 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
403 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
404 keys are given for lookup.
406 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
407 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
408 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
409 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
411 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
412 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
413 server-side so match that on older versions.
415 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
416 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
417 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
419 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
420 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
422 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
423 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
424 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
425 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
426 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
427 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
428 initial truncated version.
430 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
432 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
434 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
435 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
437 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
439 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
441 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
442 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
445 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
446 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
449 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
450 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
452 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
453 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
456 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
457 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
458 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
460 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
461 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
462 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
463 extraction. Accept either.
469 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
472 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
474 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
477 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
478 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
479 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
480 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
482 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
483 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
484 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
486 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
487 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
488 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
491 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
494 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
495 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
496 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
497 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
498 have a dsn_lasthop option.
500 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
501 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
502 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
504 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
506 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
507 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
509 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
510 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
512 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
515 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
516 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
518 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
519 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
520 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
522 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
523 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
524 specify a port-range.
526 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
527 timeout value per server.
529 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
530 now have the list separator specified.
532 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
535 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
538 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
540 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
541 rather than the verbs used.
543 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
544 from 255 to 1024 chars.
546 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
548 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
549 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
551 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
552 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
554 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
555 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
557 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
559 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
561 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
562 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
563 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
564 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
566 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
568 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
569 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
571 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
572 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
574 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
576 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
578 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
580 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
581 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
583 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
584 added for tls authenticator.
586 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
592 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
593 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
594 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
595 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
596 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
597 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
598 the script parsing/test process like normal.
600 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
601 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
602 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
603 function when detected.
605 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
606 cause callback expansion.
608 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
609 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
610 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
611 instead of bool when processing it.
613 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
614 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
616 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
618 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
620 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
622 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
623 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
625 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
626 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
627 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
628 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
629 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
630 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
632 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
633 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
636 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
637 version 3.3.6 or later.
639 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
640 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
641 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
642 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
643 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
644 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
647 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
648 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
650 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
651 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
652 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
655 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
656 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
657 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
659 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
660 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
662 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
663 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
666 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
668 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
669 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
671 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
672 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
675 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
677 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
680 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
681 output list separator was used.
686 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
687 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
690 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
691 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
693 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
695 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
696 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
702 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
704 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
705 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
706 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
707 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
708 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
709 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
711 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
712 utilities have not been installed.
714 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
715 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
717 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
718 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
720 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
721 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
722 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
723 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
725 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
727 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
728 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
730 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
733 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
735 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
736 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
737 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
739 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
740 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
741 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
742 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
743 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
744 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
746 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
748 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
749 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
751 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
754 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
756 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
758 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
759 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
761 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
762 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
764 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
766 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
768 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
769 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
771 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
772 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
773 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
775 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
776 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
777 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
780 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
782 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
783 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
786 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
787 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
790 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
791 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
793 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
794 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
796 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
798 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
799 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
800 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
802 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
803 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
805 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
806 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
809 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
810 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
811 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
813 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
815 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
816 Christian Aistleitner.
818 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
820 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
821 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
823 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
824 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
826 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
827 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
829 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
830 support and error reporting did not work properly.
832 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
833 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
835 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
836 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
837 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
839 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
841 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
842 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
845 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
847 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
848 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
855 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
857 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
858 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
860 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
863 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
864 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
867 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
869 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
870 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
871 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
872 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
873 using channel bindings instead).
875 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
876 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
877 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
878 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
879 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
882 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
884 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
886 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
887 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
889 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
890 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
891 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
893 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
895 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
897 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
898 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
900 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
902 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
904 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
906 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
907 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
909 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
911 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
912 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
915 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
916 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
918 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
919 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
922 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
924 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
926 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
927 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
929 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
932 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
933 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
935 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
936 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
938 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
940 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
942 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
945 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
948 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
950 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
951 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
952 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
953 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
955 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
957 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
958 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
959 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
960 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
963 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
964 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
965 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
967 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
968 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
969 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
970 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
972 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
973 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
974 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
975 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
976 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
977 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
978 delivery, as in LMTP.
980 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
981 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
983 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
985 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
989 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
990 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
991 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
992 username as equal to the username.
994 This change corrects that bug.
996 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
997 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
998 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1000 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1002 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1003 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1004 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1005 NULL dereference and crash.
1007 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1009 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1010 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1011 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1013 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1015 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1016 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1017 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1018 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1019 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1020 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1021 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1022 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1023 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1024 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1025 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1027 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1028 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1030 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1031 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1034 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1035 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1036 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1037 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1038 an empty string is now equivalent.
1040 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1041 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1042 not performing validation itself.
1044 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1045 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1047 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1050 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1052 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1053 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1054 other false fix of the same issue.
1055 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1058 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1059 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1061 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1062 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1063 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1065 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1066 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1067 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1069 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1071 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1073 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1074 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1076 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1079 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1080 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1081 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1082 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1083 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1085 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1086 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1088 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1089 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1092 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1093 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1094 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1095 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1097 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1099 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1100 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1101 from multiple comments on this bug.
1103 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1105 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1106 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1109 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1110 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1112 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1113 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1119 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1121 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1127 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1128 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1129 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1131 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1133 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1136 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1138 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1140 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1142 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1143 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1145 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1146 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1148 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1149 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1151 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1152 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1153 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1155 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1157 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1158 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1160 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1162 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1164 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1165 non-compliant senders.
1166 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1168 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1169 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1170 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1172 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1173 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1174 in spool file corruption.
1176 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1177 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1178 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1181 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1182 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1183 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1185 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1186 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1188 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1190 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1192 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1194 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1195 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1196 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1198 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1199 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1200 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1201 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1203 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1204 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1206 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1207 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1208 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1209 resolver implementation change.
1211 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1212 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1214 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1216 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1218 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1219 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1221 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1222 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1224 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1225 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1227 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1228 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1229 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1230 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1231 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1233 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1235 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1236 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1237 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1239 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1241 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1242 read-only, out of scope).
1243 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1245 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1246 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1247 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1248 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1250 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1252 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1253 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1254 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1255 real issues in debug logging.
1257 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1258 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1260 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1261 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1262 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1264 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1265 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1266 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1269 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1270 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1272 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1273 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1274 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1275 needs to override this, it can.
1277 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1278 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1279 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1281 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1282 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1283 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1284 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1286 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1292 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1293 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1295 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1297 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1300 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1301 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1303 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1304 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1305 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1307 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1308 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1309 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1310 not safe for signals.
1312 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1313 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1314 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1315 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1318 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1320 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1321 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1322 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1323 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1324 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1326 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1327 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1328 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1329 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1330 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1331 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1333 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1334 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1335 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1336 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1338 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1339 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1340 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1341 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1343 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1344 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1345 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1346 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1347 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1348 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1349 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1350 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1351 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1353 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1354 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1355 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1356 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1358 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1359 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1360 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1361 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1362 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1363 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1364 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1365 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1366 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1367 details in the main documentation.
1369 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1371 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1373 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1374 repository when doing development or release builds.
1376 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1377 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1379 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1380 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1383 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1385 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1386 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1388 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1389 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1391 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1392 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1394 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1395 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1397 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1398 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1400 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1402 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1405 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1406 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1407 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1409 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1411 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1413 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1414 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1420 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1422 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1423 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1425 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1427 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1429 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1432 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1433 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1435 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1436 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1438 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1439 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1441 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1444 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1445 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1447 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1448 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1449 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1450 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1452 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1453 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1459 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1462 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1463 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1464 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1466 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1467 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1469 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1470 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1471 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1473 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1474 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1476 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1477 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1479 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1480 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1482 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1483 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1485 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1486 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1488 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1491 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1492 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1494 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1495 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1497 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1498 SQL string expansion failure details.
1499 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1501 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1502 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1504 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1505 extern declarations in function scope.
1506 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1508 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1509 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1510 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1513 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1514 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1516 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1517 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1519 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1520 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1522 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1523 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1525 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1526 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1529 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1531 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1533 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1534 Patch by Simon Arlott
1536 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1537 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1543 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1544 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1546 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1547 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1549 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1551 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1552 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1553 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1555 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1556 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1557 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1559 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1560 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1561 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1562 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1564 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1565 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1566 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1567 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1569 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1570 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1571 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1574 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1577 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1578 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1579 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1580 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1581 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1587 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1588 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1589 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1591 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1592 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1594 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1596 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1598 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1600 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1602 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1604 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1605 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1606 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1607 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1609 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1610 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1611 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1612 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1613 more caution in buffer sizes.
1615 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1617 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1619 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1621 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1623 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1625 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1627 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1629 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1630 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1631 ignore trailing whitespace.
1633 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1635 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1638 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1639 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1641 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1642 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1643 Notification from John Horne.
1645 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1648 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1649 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1652 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1655 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1656 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1657 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1659 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1660 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1661 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1664 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1665 option (effectively making it always true).
1667 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1668 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1670 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1671 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1673 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1674 run-time user, instead of root.
1676 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1677 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1679 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1680 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1683 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1684 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1685 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1687 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1689 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1695 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1696 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1699 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1700 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1703 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1704 Patch from Alain Williams
1706 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1708 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1709 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1711 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1712 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1714 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1716 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1718 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1719 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1721 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1723 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1725 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1726 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1727 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1729 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1730 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1732 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1733 Patch by Simon Arlott
1735 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1736 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1742 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1744 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1746 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1748 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1750 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1756 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1757 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1759 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1760 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1763 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1764 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1765 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1767 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1768 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1770 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1771 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1772 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1773 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1775 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1776 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1777 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1779 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1781 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1783 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1784 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1786 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1788 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1789 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1790 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1791 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1793 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1794 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1796 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1798 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1800 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1801 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1803 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1804 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1806 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1807 that they are available at delivery time.
1809 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1811 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1812 incoming_port log selectors.
1814 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1815 setting expands to an empty string.
1817 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1818 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1820 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1821 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1823 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1824 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1826 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1827 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1829 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1830 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1832 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1833 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1835 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1837 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1838 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1840 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1841 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1843 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1845 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1846 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1848 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1850 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1852 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1855 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1856 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1858 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1859 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1861 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1862 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1864 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1865 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1867 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1868 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1870 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1871 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1873 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1874 plus update to original patch.
1876 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1878 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1879 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1881 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1883 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1885 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1887 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1889 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1890 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1892 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1893 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1895 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1896 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1898 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1899 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1901 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1903 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1905 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1907 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1913 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1914 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1915 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1917 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1918 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1919 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1920 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1921 build errors in sieve.c.
1923 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1924 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1925 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1927 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1929 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1931 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1933 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1939 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1941 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1942 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1943 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1944 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1945 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1946 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1947 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1948 for iplsearch lookups.
1950 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1951 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1952 previously such lookups could never work.
1954 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
1955 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1956 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1958 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1961 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1962 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1963 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1964 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1965 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1966 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1968 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1969 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1971 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1972 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1973 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1974 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1975 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1976 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1978 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1981 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1983 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1984 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1987 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1988 by clients under certain conditions.
1990 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1991 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1993 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1995 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1996 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1998 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2000 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2002 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2004 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2005 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2007 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2009 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2010 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2012 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2014 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2016 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2017 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2018 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2019 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2021 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2022 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2023 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2025 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2026 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2028 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2030 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2032 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2034 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2035 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2036 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2042 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2043 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2046 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2047 issue a MAIL command.
2049 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2051 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2053 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2054 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2055 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2056 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2057 item. This has been fixed.
2059 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2060 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2062 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2063 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2065 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2066 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2067 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2069 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2071 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2072 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2073 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2074 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2075 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2077 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2078 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2079 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2081 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2082 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2083 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2084 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2086 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2088 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2090 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2091 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2092 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2093 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2094 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2096 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2098 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2099 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2100 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2103 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2105 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2107 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2109 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2111 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2113 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2114 no_callout_flush is set.
2116 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2117 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2118 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2121 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2123 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2124 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2125 other ACL rejections are.
2127 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2128 with slight modification.
2130 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2131 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2133 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2134 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2137 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2138 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2140 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2142 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2143 expansion side effects.
2145 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2146 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2147 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2150 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2151 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2152 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2154 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2155 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2156 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2157 were accidentally chopped off.
2159 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2160 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2161 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2162 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2163 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2164 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2165 pipelining has not been advertised.
2167 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2169 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2170 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2171 This has been fixed.
2173 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2174 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2175 reported on Solaris.
2177 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2178 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2179 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2180 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2181 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2182 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2183 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2185 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2188 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2190 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2192 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2193 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2194 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2195 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2196 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2197 criteria to be more general.
2199 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2200 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2201 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2202 host_all_ignored option.
2204 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2205 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2206 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2207 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2208 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2209 is what is supposed to happen).
2211 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2212 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2213 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2214 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2215 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2218 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2219 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2220 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2221 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2222 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2223 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2226 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2228 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2229 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2231 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2232 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2234 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2236 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2238 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2239 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2240 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2241 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2242 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2243 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2244 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2245 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2246 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2247 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2248 least in a lot of common cases.
2250 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2251 advertised in response to EHLO.
2257 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2258 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2260 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2261 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2263 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2264 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2265 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2267 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2268 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2269 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2270 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2271 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2277 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2278 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2281 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2282 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2283 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2285 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2286 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2287 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2288 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2289 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2290 rather than extend the field.
2296 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2297 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2298 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2299 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2302 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2303 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2304 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2306 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2307 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2308 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2310 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2311 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2312 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2315 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2316 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2317 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2318 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2319 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2320 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2321 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2322 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2323 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2324 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2325 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2327 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2330 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2331 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2332 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2333 ignores EPIPE as well.
2335 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2336 (quoted-printable decoding).
2338 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2339 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2341 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2343 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2345 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2347 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2348 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2350 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2353 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2354 miscellaneous code fixes
2356 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2359 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2360 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2361 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2362 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2363 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2364 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2365 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2366 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2368 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2369 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2370 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2371 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2373 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2374 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2375 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2376 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2377 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2378 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2379 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2380 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2381 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2383 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2386 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2387 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2388 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2389 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2390 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2391 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2392 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2393 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2395 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2396 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2399 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2400 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2401 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2402 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2403 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2404 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2405 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2406 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2407 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2408 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2409 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2410 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2411 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2413 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2414 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2415 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2416 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2417 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2418 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2419 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2421 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2422 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2423 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2424 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2425 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2426 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2427 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2428 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2429 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2430 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2432 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2433 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2434 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2435 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2436 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2438 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2439 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2440 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2441 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2442 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2443 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2444 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2446 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2447 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2448 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2449 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2450 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2451 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2454 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2455 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2456 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2459 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2460 if any retry times were supplied.
2462 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2463 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2464 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2466 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2468 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2470 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2471 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2472 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2473 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2474 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2475 before) are ignored.
2477 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2478 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2480 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2481 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2482 committing the later change.]
2484 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2485 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2486 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2487 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2488 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2489 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2490 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2491 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2492 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2494 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2495 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2496 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2497 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2498 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2499 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2500 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2501 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2502 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2504 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2505 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2506 hammering the server.
2508 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2509 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2511 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2513 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2514 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2515 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2517 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2518 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2519 one case where this was not true.
2521 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2522 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2523 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2524 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2527 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2528 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2529 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2530 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2531 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2532 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2533 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2534 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2535 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2538 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2539 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2540 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2541 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2543 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2544 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2546 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2547 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2548 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2550 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2552 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2554 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2556 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2557 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2558 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2559 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2561 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2562 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2564 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2565 be meaningful with "accept".
2567 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2568 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2570 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2571 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2572 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2574 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2575 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2576 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2577 there is data to show.
2578 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2580 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2581 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2582 as well as the number of messages.
2584 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2585 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2586 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2588 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2589 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2590 have a flag are now skipped.
2592 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2593 Added the -emptyok flag.
2595 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2596 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2598 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2599 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2600 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2602 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2605 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2606 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2608 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2610 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2611 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2613 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2615 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2616 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2617 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2618 contravention of the specifications.
2620 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2621 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2622 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2624 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2625 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2626 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2628 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2630 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2631 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2632 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2633 some point in the past.
2635 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2636 transport during callout processing was broken.
2638 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2639 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2641 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2642 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2644 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2645 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2647 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2653 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2654 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2656 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2657 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2658 there is data to show.
2659 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2661 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2662 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2664 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2665 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2667 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2668 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2670 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2671 submissions from trusted users.
2673 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2674 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2676 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2677 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2678 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2679 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2680 there is now a framework to start from.
2682 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2683 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2684 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2686 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2688 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2690 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2692 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2693 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2694 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2696 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2699 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2700 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2701 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2703 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2704 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2705 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2708 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2709 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2710 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2711 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2712 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2714 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2715 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2717 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2719 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2720 operations in malware.c.
2722 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2725 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2726 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2727 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2730 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2731 statements to "add_header".
2733 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2734 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2736 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2737 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2740 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2744 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2745 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2746 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2749 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2750 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2752 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2753 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2755 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2756 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2757 any possible encoding problems.
2759 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2760 but not after initializing Perl.
2762 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2763 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2764 apparently, which is not desirable.
2766 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2769 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2772 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2774 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2775 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2776 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2777 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2779 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2780 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2781 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2783 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2784 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2785 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2788 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2789 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2790 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2791 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2792 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2798 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2799 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2801 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2804 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2805 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2806 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2807 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2808 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2809 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2810 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2811 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2814 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2816 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2817 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2818 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2820 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2821 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2822 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2825 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2826 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2828 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2829 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2830 option (which defaults to 0600).
2832 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2834 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2835 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2836 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2837 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2838 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2839 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2840 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2842 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2848 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2849 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2850 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2851 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2852 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2853 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2856 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2857 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2859 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2861 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2862 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2863 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2864 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2865 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2868 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2869 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2871 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2872 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2873 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2874 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2875 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2877 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2878 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2879 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2880 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2882 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2883 be the same on different OS.
2885 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2888 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2889 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2891 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2894 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2895 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2896 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2897 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2898 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2899 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2902 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2903 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2904 when Exim was called.
2906 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2907 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2909 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2910 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2911 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2912 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2914 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2915 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2916 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2917 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2920 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2921 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2922 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
2924 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2925 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2926 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2928 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2931 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2932 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2933 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2934 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2935 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2936 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2937 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2938 values from the SRV records were lost.
2940 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2941 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2942 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2944 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2945 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2946 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2948 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2949 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2950 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2951 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2952 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2953 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2954 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2955 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2956 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2957 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2959 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2960 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2961 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2963 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2964 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2966 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2967 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2968 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2969 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2972 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2973 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2974 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2976 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2977 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2978 PH/23 above applies.
2980 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2981 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2982 (for which there is an explicit test).
2984 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2986 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2987 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2988 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2989 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2990 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2992 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2993 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2994 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2995 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2997 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2998 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2999 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3001 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3003 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3005 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3006 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3007 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3009 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3010 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3011 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3012 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3013 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3015 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3016 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3017 the message gets confusing).
3019 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3020 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3021 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3022 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3024 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3025 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3026 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3027 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3030 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3031 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3032 the different processes.
3034 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3036 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3038 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3039 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3041 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3042 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3044 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3045 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3046 messages matching specified criteria.
3048 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3050 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3051 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3053 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3054 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3055 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3056 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3057 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3058 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3059 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3060 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3061 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3062 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3064 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3065 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3066 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3068 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3070 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3071 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3072 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3073 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3074 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3075 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3076 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3079 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3080 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3082 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3084 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3086 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3088 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3089 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3090 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3091 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3092 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3093 size of the count of files.
3095 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3097 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3100 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3101 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3102 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3103 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3105 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3106 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3107 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3109 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3110 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3111 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3112 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3113 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3115 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3116 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3118 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3119 will now be deprecated.
3121 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3123 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3124 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3125 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3127 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3128 with very large, slow to parse queues
3130 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3132 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3134 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3135 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3136 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3139 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3140 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3141 Sieve code now uses this.
3143 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3144 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3146 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3147 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3149 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3151 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3152 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3153 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3154 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3155 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3157 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3158 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3159 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3160 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3162 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3164 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3166 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3167 is preferred over IPv4.
3169 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3170 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3171 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3172 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3173 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3174 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3175 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3177 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3178 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3179 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3181 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3183 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3184 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3185 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3186 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3187 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3188 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3189 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3190 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3191 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3192 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3193 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3195 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3196 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3197 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3203 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3205 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3206 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3208 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3209 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3210 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3212 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3214 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3217 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3220 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3221 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3222 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3225 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3226 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3228 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3229 inside the third argument.
3231 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3232 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3235 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3236 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3238 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3239 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3241 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3243 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3244 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3247 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3249 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3250 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3251 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3252 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3253 identical. For example:
3255 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3257 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3258 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3259 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3261 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3262 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3263 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3264 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3266 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3267 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3268 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3271 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3273 o fixes some comments
3274 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3275 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3276 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3277 and documents the missing references header update
3281 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3282 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3285 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3286 Electronic Mail") by including:
3288 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3290 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3291 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3292 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3293 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3294 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3296 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3298 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3300 The auto-replied keyword:
3302 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3303 message by an automatic process,
3305 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3307 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3308 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3310 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3311 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3314 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3315 to the default Received: header definition.
3317 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3319 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3320 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3321 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3323 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3324 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3325 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3327 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3328 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3329 and treats the condition as false.
3331 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3333 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3334 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3335 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3336 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3337 not changing the active code.
3339 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3340 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3342 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3343 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3345 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3348 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3349 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3350 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3351 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3352 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3353 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3354 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3355 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3356 the text comparison.
3358 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3359 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3360 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3361 The same fix has been applied.
3367 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3368 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3371 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3372 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3374 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3376 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3377 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3378 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3379 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3380 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3382 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3383 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3384 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3385 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3388 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3396 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3397 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3399 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3401 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3403 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3404 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3405 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3407 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3408 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3409 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3411 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3412 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3415 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3416 ${stat: expansion item.
3418 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3419 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3421 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3422 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3425 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3427 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3430 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3431 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3433 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3435 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3436 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3437 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3438 the end of the subprocess.
3440 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3441 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3442 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3443 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3444 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3446 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3448 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3450 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3451 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3453 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3455 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3457 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3458 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3461 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3463 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3464 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3465 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3467 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3468 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3470 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3471 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3473 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3474 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3476 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3477 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3479 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3480 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3481 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3482 contributed by a Radius user.
3484 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3485 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3487 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3488 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3490 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3493 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3494 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3497 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3498 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3499 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3500 header lines when this was not necessary.
3502 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3504 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3505 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3506 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3509 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3512 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3513 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3514 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3515 return code was incorrect.
3517 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3519 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3521 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3523 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3525 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3526 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3527 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3528 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3529 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3532 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3534 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3535 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3536 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3537 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3538 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3539 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3540 which is clearly wrong.
3542 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3544 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3545 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3546 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3549 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3550 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3552 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3554 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3555 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3557 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3558 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3560 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3561 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3563 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3564 recipients, not senders.
3566 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3567 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3569 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3571 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3573 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3574 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3575 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3576 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3578 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3580 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3581 clock is set back in time.
3583 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3584 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3586 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3587 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3589 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3590 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3593 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3594 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3597 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3600 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3602 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3603 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3604 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3606 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3607 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3608 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3609 helo verification defer as a failure.
3611 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3612 actual error message.
3618 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3620 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3621 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3622 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3623 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3625 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3627 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3628 can still be requested.
3630 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3631 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3632 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3633 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3635 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3636 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3637 circumstances, but probably never did.
3639 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3640 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3641 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3644 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3646 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3647 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3649 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3651 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3653 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3654 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3655 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3656 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3657 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3658 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3660 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3661 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3662 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3663 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3664 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3665 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3667 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3668 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3670 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3671 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3673 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3674 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3676 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3678 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3680 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3682 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3684 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3686 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3688 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3690 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3691 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3692 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3694 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3695 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3696 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3697 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3699 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3700 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3701 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3703 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3704 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3705 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3706 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3708 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3709 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3712 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3713 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3714 should work with maildirs and everything.
3716 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3717 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3719 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3722 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3723 function for BDB 4.3.
3725 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3727 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3728 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3731 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3732 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3733 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3734 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3735 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3736 formatting function string_vformat().
3738 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3739 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3740 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3741 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3742 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3743 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3744 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3745 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3747 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3748 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3751 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3752 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3754 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3755 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3756 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3757 test. It is now used for both.
3759 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3760 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3761 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3762 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3763 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3764 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3766 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3767 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3768 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3771 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3772 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3773 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3775 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3776 experimental DomainKeys support:
3778 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3779 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3780 the control was given.
3782 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3784 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3786 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3788 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3789 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3790 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3793 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3794 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3795 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3796 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3797 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3798 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3801 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3802 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3803 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3804 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3805 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3806 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3808 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3809 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3810 do -d+all out of habit.
3812 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3813 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3816 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3817 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3818 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3819 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3820 record types that Exim uses.
3822 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3823 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3824 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3825 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3826 non-existent file that was broken.
3828 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3829 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3831 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3832 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3833 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3835 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3837 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3838 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3839 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3840 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3841 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3844 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3845 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3846 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3847 at a slight CPU cost.
3849 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3850 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3852 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3855 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3857 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3858 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3864 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3865 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3867 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3869 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3871 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3872 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3874 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3875 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3876 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3877 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3878 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3879 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3882 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3883 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3884 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3885 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3888 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3889 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3890 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3891 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3892 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3893 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3894 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3897 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3898 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3900 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3901 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3902 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3903 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3904 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3905 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3907 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3908 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3909 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3910 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3912 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3915 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3916 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3918 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3919 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3920 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3921 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3924 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3926 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3927 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3929 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3930 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3931 to what was transported.)
3933 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3935 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3936 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3937 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3938 spamd_address settings.
3940 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3941 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3942 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3943 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3944 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3946 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3948 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3949 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3950 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3951 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3952 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3954 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3955 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3957 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3958 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3959 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3960 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3961 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3962 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3963 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3966 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3967 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3968 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3969 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3970 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3971 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3972 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3975 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3977 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3978 driver and ACL definitions.
3980 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3981 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3983 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3984 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3985 understands it better than I do:
3987 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3988 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3990 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3991 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3992 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3993 => three warnings about OTP not working
3994 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3996 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3997 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3998 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3999 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4001 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4002 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4004 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4005 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4006 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4008 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4009 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4012 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4013 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4016 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4017 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4018 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4020 warn !verify = sender
4021 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4023 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4024 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4026 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4028 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4029 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4031 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4032 nomenclature these days.)
4034 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4035 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4037 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4038 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4039 . First host does not offer TLS;
4040 . First host accepts first address;
4041 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4042 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4043 . Second host accepts second address.
4044 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4045 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4048 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4049 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4050 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4051 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4052 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4054 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4055 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4057 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4058 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4060 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4061 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4062 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4064 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4065 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4068 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4070 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4071 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4072 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4073 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4074 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4075 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4076 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4078 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4079 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4080 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4081 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4082 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4084 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4085 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4088 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4089 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4090 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4091 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4092 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4093 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4095 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4097 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4098 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4099 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4100 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4101 printable escape sequences.
4103 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4104 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4107 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4108 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4111 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4112 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4113 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4114 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4115 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4117 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4118 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4119 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4121 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4123 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4124 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4127 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4128 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4129 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4130 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4131 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4132 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4133 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4134 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4135 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4138 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4139 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4140 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4141 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4145 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4146 ----------------------------------------
4148 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4149 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4150 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4151 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4152 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4153 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4156 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4157 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4158 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4159 historical information.
4165 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4167 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4168 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4170 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4171 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4174 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4175 filter fails to execute.
4177 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4178 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4179 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4180 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4181 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4183 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4185 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4186 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4187 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4188 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4190 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4191 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4192 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4193 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4194 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4196 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4198 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4200 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4201 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4202 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4203 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4205 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4206 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4207 sender verification.
4209 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4210 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4212 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4214 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4217 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4218 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4220 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4221 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4223 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4224 information about exactly what failed.
4226 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4228 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4229 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4230 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4232 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4233 It is now set to "smtps".
4235 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4236 ignore_target_hosts.
4238 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4239 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4240 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4241 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4244 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4245 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4246 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4248 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4249 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4250 wake it up if nothing else does.
4252 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4253 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4254 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4257 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4258 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4260 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4262 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4263 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4264 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4265 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4266 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4267 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4268 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4269 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4271 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4272 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4273 than one IP address.
4275 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4276 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4277 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4278 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4280 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4281 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4282 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4283 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4284 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4287 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4288 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4289 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4290 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4292 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4293 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4296 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4297 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4298 $sender_host_address.
4300 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4301 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4302 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4303 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4304 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4307 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4309 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4310 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4312 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4313 just the host names, not the priorities.
4315 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4316 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4317 controlled by a keyword.
4319 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4320 multiple records are returned.
4322 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4323 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4326 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4328 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4329 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4331 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4332 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4333 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4335 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4337 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4339 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4341 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4342 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4343 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4344 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4345 because the tests only now provoked it.
4347 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4348 (this can affect the format of dates).
4350 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4351 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4352 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4353 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4355 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4357 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4358 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4359 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4360 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4362 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4363 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4364 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4366 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4369 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4370 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4371 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4372 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4373 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4374 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4377 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4378 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4379 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4382 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4383 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4384 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4386 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4387 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4388 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4389 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4390 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4391 so I produce this patch..."
4393 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4394 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4397 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4398 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4399 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4400 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4403 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4405 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4406 long debug lines gets shown.
4408 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4409 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4411 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4413 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4414 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4415 of $primary_hostname.
4417 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4418 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4419 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4420 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4421 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4422 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4423 by change 4.50/55 above.
4425 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4426 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4427 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4428 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4429 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4430 running as the user.
4433 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4434 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4435 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4438 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4439 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4441 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4442 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4443 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4444 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4445 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4447 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4448 This has been fixed.
4450 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4451 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4452 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4453 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4456 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4458 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4459 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4460 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4461 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4463 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4464 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4466 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4467 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4468 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4470 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4471 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4472 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4475 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4476 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4477 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4479 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4480 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4481 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4482 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4484 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4485 during host lookups.
4487 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4488 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4490 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4492 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4493 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4494 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4495 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4496 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4499 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4500 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4502 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4503 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4504 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4506 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4508 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4509 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4510 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4511 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4512 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4513 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4516 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4517 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4518 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4519 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4520 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4522 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4525 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4527 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4528 "vacation" handling.
4530 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4531 OS variants using glibc.
4533 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4536 ----------------------------------------------------
4537 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4538 ----------------------------------------------------
4544 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4545 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4548 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4549 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4552 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4553 filter fails to execute.
4555 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4556 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4557 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4558 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4559 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4561 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4562 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4563 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4564 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4566 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4567 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4568 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4569 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4570 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4572 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4574 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4575 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4576 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4577 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4579 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4580 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4581 sender verification.
4583 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4584 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4586 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4587 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4589 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4590 ignore_target_hosts.
4592 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4593 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4594 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4595 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4598 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4599 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4600 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4602 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4603 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4604 wake it up if nothing else does.
4606 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4607 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4608 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4611 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4612 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4614 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4616 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4617 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4620 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4621 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4624 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4625 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4626 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4627 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4628 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4631 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4632 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4635 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4636 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4637 $sender_host_address.
4639 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4641 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4642 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4643 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4645 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4648 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4649 (this can affect the format of dates).
4651 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4652 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4653 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4654 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4656 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4657 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4658 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4660 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4661 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4662 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4663 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4665 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4666 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4667 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4669 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4672 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4673 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4674 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4675 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4676 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4677 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4680 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4681 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4682 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4683 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4686 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4687 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4688 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4689 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4690 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4691 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4692 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4694 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4695 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4696 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4697 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4698 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4699 running as the user.
4702 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4703 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4704 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4707 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4708 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4709 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4710 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4711 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4713 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4714 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4715 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4716 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4719 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4720 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4721 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4722 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4723 because the tests only now provoked it.
4729 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4730 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4731 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4732 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4733 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4734 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4735 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4737 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4738 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4741 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4743 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4745 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4746 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4749 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4750 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4751 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4752 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4753 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4755 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4756 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4758 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4760 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4762 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4765 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4766 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4768 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4769 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4770 affecting debugging statements).
4772 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4774 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4775 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4776 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4777 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4778 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4779 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4780 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4781 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4782 after the received time, and all would be well.
4784 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4785 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4786 condition in an expansion string.
4788 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4790 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4791 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4792 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4793 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4794 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4795 job under whatever limits there are.
4797 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4799 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4802 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4803 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4804 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4805 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4808 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4809 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4810 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4811 binary data in such strings.
4813 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4815 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4816 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4817 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4818 failure, which is pointless.
4820 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4822 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4824 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4825 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4826 Sender: header lines.
4828 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4829 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4830 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4832 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4833 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4834 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4835 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4836 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4839 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4840 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4841 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4842 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4843 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4845 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4846 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4847 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4850 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4851 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4853 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4854 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4856 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4858 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4860 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4862 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4865 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4867 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4869 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4870 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4871 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4872 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4874 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4875 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4881 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4882 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4883 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4885 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4886 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4887 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4888 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4889 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4890 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4892 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4893 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4894 verification failure".
4896 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4897 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4898 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4899 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4901 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4902 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4903 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4904 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4905 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4906 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4907 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4908 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4909 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4910 treated as a timeout.
4912 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4913 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4914 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4915 not set for Exim filters).
4917 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4918 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4919 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4921 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4923 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4924 try to make them clearer.
4926 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4927 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4929 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4931 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4933 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4934 only the Cygwin environment.
4936 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4937 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4938 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4939 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4940 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4942 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4943 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4944 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4945 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4946 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4947 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4948 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4950 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4951 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4953 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4955 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4956 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4957 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4959 To: susanne@some.where
4961 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4962 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4963 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4964 of addresses in From: header lines).
4966 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4967 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4968 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4970 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4971 treated as non-personal.
4973 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4974 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4976 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4978 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4980 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4981 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4982 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4984 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4985 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4987 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4988 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4989 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4990 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4991 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4992 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4994 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4995 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4996 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4997 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4998 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4999 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5000 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5001 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5003 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5005 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5006 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5008 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5009 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5010 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5012 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5013 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5015 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5016 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5017 rather than long int.
5019 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5021 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5027 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5028 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5029 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5030 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5031 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5032 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5038 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5039 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5041 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5042 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5043 socklen_t is defined.
5045 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5048 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5051 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5052 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5053 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5054 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5055 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5057 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5058 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5059 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5060 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5062 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5063 of flapping under certain conditions.
5065 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5066 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5067 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5069 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5071 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5073 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5074 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5075 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5076 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5078 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5079 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5080 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5081 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5082 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5083 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5084 preserved with the message after it was received.
5086 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5087 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5088 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5089 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5090 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5091 test suite worked just fine.
5093 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5094 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5095 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5097 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5098 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5101 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5102 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5103 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5104 does not fully solve it.
5106 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5107 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5108 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5109 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5110 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5112 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5113 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5114 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5116 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5117 string, for example:
5119 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5121 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5122 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5123 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5124 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5125 the routers could not see them.
5127 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5128 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5130 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5131 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5134 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5135 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5136 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5137 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5138 that needed quoting.
5140 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5141 was not being matched caselessly.
5143 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5146 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5147 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5148 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5149 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5150 when use_sender is false.
5152 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5154 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5156 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5158 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5159 the configuration file.
5161 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5162 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5164 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5166 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5167 bytes in the message body.
5169 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5170 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5173 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5175 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5177 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5178 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5179 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5180 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5187 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5188 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5190 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5191 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5192 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5193 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5194 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5196 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5197 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5199 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5200 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5201 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5203 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5204 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5205 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5207 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5210 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5211 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5212 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5213 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5214 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5215 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5216 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5222 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5223 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5224 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5225 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5226 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5227 default (and expected) setting.
5229 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5230 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5231 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5232 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5234 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5235 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5237 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5240 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5241 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5242 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5243 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5244 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5245 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5247 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5248 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5249 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5251 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5252 part (NOT match_host).
5254 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5256 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5257 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5258 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5259 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5260 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5261 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5262 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5263 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5264 the same named file.
5266 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5267 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5270 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5271 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5272 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5273 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5276 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5277 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5278 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5280 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5282 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5284 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5286 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5287 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5289 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5290 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5291 before starting the TLS session.
5293 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5295 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5296 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5298 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5299 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5300 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5301 colon in the middle).
5307 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5308 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5309 multiple configurations are in use.
5311 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5312 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5313 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5314 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5315 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5316 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5318 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5319 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5321 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5322 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5323 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5325 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5326 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5329 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5330 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5332 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5334 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5335 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5337 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5345 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5346 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5347 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5348 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5349 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5351 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5354 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5355 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5356 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5357 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5358 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5359 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5361 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5362 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5363 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5364 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5365 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5366 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5367 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5370 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5371 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5372 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5373 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5374 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5376 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5378 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5379 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5380 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5382 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5384 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5385 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5386 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5389 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5390 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5392 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5393 Three changes have been made:
5395 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5396 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5397 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5398 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5399 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5401 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5404 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5405 the modified behaviour.
5411 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5414 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5415 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5417 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5418 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5419 try to track down a specific problem.
5421 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5422 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5423 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5425 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5428 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5429 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5430 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5431 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5432 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5433 some earlier ones do not.
5435 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5437 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5438 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5439 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5440 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5441 address literals are enabled, of course).
5443 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5445 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5446 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5447 by a command such as
5451 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5453 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5455 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5456 remained set. It is now erased.
5458 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5459 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5461 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5462 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5463 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5464 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5465 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5466 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5467 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5468 appropriate error code.
5470 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5471 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5472 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5473 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5474 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5475 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5477 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5478 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5479 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5481 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5482 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5483 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5484 terminate the header.
5486 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5487 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5488 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5490 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5491 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5492 (4.30/29). In particular:
5494 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5497 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5498 to write a maildirsize file.
5500 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5501 the transport, the new value overrides.
5503 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5506 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5507 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5508 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5511 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5512 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5513 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5516 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5517 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5518 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5520 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5521 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5524 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5525 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5526 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5528 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5530 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5532 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5534 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5535 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5538 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5539 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5540 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5541 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5542 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5543 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5544 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5547 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5548 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5549 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5550 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5551 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5554 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5555 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5556 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5557 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5558 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5559 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5560 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5561 cached value only when the same options are set.
5563 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5565 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5566 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5567 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5568 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5569 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5571 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5572 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5573 it is clearly obsolete.
5575 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5578 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5579 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5580 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5583 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5584 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5585 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5586 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5587 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5589 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5590 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5591 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5592 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5594 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5596 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5598 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5599 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5602 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5603 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5604 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5605 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5606 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5607 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5610 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5611 with the -f command-line option.
5613 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5614 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5615 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5616 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5617 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5618 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5620 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5621 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5624 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5625 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5626 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5627 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5628 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5629 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5630 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5631 buffer is too small.
5633 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5634 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5636 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5637 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5638 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5639 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5640 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5641 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5642 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5643 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5644 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5646 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5647 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5648 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5650 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5651 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5654 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5655 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5656 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5657 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5658 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5660 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5661 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5662 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5663 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5666 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5668 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5670 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5671 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5673 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5674 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5675 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5677 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5678 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5679 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5680 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5681 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5683 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5684 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5685 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5686 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5687 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5688 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5689 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5691 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5692 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5693 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5694 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5695 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5696 the test of how many are available.
5698 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5699 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5700 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5701 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5702 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5703 new message is started.
5705 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5706 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5708 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5709 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5711 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5712 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5713 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5716 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5717 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5718 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5719 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5720 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5721 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5722 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5724 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5725 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5726 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5727 interpreted as octal.
5729 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5732 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5733 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5734 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5735 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5736 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5737 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5739 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5740 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5741 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5742 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5744 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5745 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5746 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5747 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5749 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5750 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5753 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5754 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5756 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5758 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5759 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5760 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5761 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5763 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5764 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5765 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5766 supplied", which is not helpful.
5768 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5769 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5770 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5772 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5773 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5774 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5775 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5776 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5777 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5778 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5779 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5781 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5782 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5783 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5784 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5785 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5787 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5788 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5789 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5790 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5791 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5792 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5794 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5795 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5796 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5798 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5800 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5801 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5802 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5805 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5807 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5808 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5809 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5810 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5811 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5812 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5813 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5814 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5816 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5817 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5818 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5819 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5820 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5822 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5825 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5826 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5827 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5828 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5829 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5830 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5831 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5832 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5833 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5839 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5840 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5841 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5843 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5846 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5847 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5848 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5850 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5851 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5852 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5853 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5854 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5855 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5857 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5858 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5859 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5860 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5861 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5862 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5863 the Exim test suite.
5865 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5866 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5867 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5868 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5870 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5871 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5872 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5873 specify it in this variable.
5875 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5876 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5877 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5878 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5880 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5881 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5882 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5883 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5885 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5886 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5887 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5888 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5889 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5891 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5893 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5896 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5897 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5898 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5899 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5900 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5902 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5903 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5905 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5906 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5907 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5908 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5909 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5911 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5912 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5914 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5915 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5916 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5918 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5919 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5921 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5922 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5924 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5925 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5926 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5928 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5929 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5931 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5932 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5933 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5934 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5936 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5938 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5939 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5940 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5941 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5943 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5945 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5946 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5948 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5950 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5951 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5952 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5953 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5954 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5955 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5957 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5959 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5960 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5963 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5965 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5966 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5968 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5969 550 Sender verify failed
5971 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5972 the final line of the response.
5974 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5975 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5976 all other user lookups.
5978 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5981 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5982 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5983 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5984 result into an int without checking.
5986 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5987 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5988 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
5990 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5991 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5992 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5993 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5995 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5998 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5999 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6001 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6002 to the empty sender.
6004 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6005 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6006 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6007 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6008 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6009 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6010 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6013 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6014 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6015 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6016 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6019 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6020 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6022 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6025 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6026 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6028 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6030 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6031 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6034 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6035 as soon as it is encountered.
6037 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6039 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6042 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6043 recognizes a tab character.
6045 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6046 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6047 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6048 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6050 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6052 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6055 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6057 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6059 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6060 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6063 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6064 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6065 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6066 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6067 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6069 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6070 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6072 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6073 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6074 list (.included file names were always shown).
6076 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6077 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6078 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6081 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6082 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6084 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6086 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6088 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6090 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6091 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6092 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6093 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6094 failures to open the logs.
6096 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6097 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6098 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6099 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6100 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6101 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6102 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6108 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6109 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6110 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6113 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6114 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6115 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6117 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6118 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6119 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6121 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6122 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6123 causing some misleading effects.
6125 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6126 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6127 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6129 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6130 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6131 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6132 queue-runner function directly.
6138 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6141 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6142 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6143 was always written to the default place.
6145 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6146 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6147 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6149 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6151 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6153 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6154 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6155 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6157 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6158 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6161 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6162 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6163 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6165 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6166 command line option is disabled.
6168 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6169 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6171 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6173 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6175 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6176 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6178 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6180 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6181 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6182 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6183 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6184 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6185 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6187 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6188 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6191 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6192 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6194 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6195 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6197 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6198 received was valid base64.
6200 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6201 name of the variable that was being set.
6203 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6205 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6206 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6207 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6208 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6209 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6210 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6212 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6214 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6215 nor realm was specified.
6217 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6218 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6219 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6220 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6222 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6223 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6224 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6226 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6227 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6228 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6230 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6231 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6232 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6233 some systems use these upper case variants.
6235 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6236 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6237 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6238 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6240 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6242 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6243 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6245 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6246 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6249 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6251 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6252 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6253 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6254 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6256 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6259 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6260 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6261 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6263 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6264 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6266 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6267 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6268 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6269 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6271 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6272 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6273 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6275 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6277 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6278 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6279 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6280 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6283 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6284 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6285 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6287 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6289 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6290 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6292 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6293 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6295 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6296 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6297 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6298 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6299 when emails are that large.
6306 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6307 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6309 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6310 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6311 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6313 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6314 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6315 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6317 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6318 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6319 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6320 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6321 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6323 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6324 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6325 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6326 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6327 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6330 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6331 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6332 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6333 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6334 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6335 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6336 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6337 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6338 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6339 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6340 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6341 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6342 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6343 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6345 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6346 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6349 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6350 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6351 error should be diagnosed.
6353 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6354 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6355 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6356 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6357 appeared instead of "NULL".
6359 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6360 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6361 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6362 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6363 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6364 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6367 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6368 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6369 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6375 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6376 or receiver verification errors.
6378 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6381 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6382 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6383 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6384 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6386 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6387 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6388 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6389 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6390 shouldn't happen again.
6392 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6393 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6394 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6396 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6397 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6399 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6401 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6402 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6404 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6405 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6408 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6409 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6410 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6412 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6413 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6414 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6415 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6417 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6418 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6419 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6420 to define what should happen).
6422 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6423 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6424 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6426 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6428 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6430 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6431 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6433 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6434 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6435 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6436 structure in all cases.
6438 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6439 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6440 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6441 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6443 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6444 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6447 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6448 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6450 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6451 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6453 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6454 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6455 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6457 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6458 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6459 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6461 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6462 the book and for uniformity.
6464 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6466 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6467 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6468 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6469 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6470 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6471 non-existent command as the problem.
6473 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6474 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6475 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6477 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6479 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6480 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6481 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6483 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6484 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6485 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6486 timestamps using strftime().
6488 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6489 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6491 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6492 transport-time rewrites.
6494 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6495 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6496 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6497 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6499 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6500 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6502 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6503 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6504 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6505 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6508 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6509 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6510 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6511 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6512 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6513 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6514 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6516 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6517 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6518 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6519 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6520 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6522 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6523 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6524 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6525 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6526 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6527 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6528 remaining text gets split now.
6530 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6531 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6532 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6533 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6535 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6536 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6537 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6538 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6541 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6542 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6543 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6544 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6545 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6546 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6547 passed through if needed.
6549 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6550 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6551 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6552 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6553 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6554 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6556 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6557 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6558 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6559 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6560 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6562 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6563 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6564 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6565 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6566 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6568 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6569 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6572 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6573 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6574 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6575 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6576 mayhem of various kinds.
6578 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6579 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6580 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6581 the right test for positive values.
6583 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6584 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6585 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6586 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6587 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6588 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6589 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6590 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6591 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6592 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6595 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6598 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6599 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6602 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6603 the existing equality matching.
6605 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6606 dealing with inode numbers.
6608 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6609 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6610 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6612 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6613 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6614 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6615 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6618 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6619 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6620 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6621 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6622 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6623 relay addresses has also been removed.
6625 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6627 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6628 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6629 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6631 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6632 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6633 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6634 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6635 processing applies to CR:
6637 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6638 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6640 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6641 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6642 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6643 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6645 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6646 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6647 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6649 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6650 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6651 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6652 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6653 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6654 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6657 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6660 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6661 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6662 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6663 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6666 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6668 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6670 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6672 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6673 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6674 not considered personal.
6676 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6678 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6680 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6682 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6683 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6684 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6685 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6686 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6687 header lines, and spool format errors.
6689 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6690 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6691 for more flexibility.
6693 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6694 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6695 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6697 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6700 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6701 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6702 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6703 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6704 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6705 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6706 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6707 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6708 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6710 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6711 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6712 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6713 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6714 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6715 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6716 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6718 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6719 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6720 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6722 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6723 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6724 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6725 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6726 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6727 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6728 instead of killing the process with assert().
6730 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6731 than Unicode encoding.
6733 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6734 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6735 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6736 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6738 77. Added process_log_path.
6740 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6741 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6743 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6744 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6746 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6747 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6748 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6750 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6751 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6752 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6753 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6754 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6757 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6758 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6761 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6762 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6763 they will be used during message reception.
6769 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.